The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1930, Page 4

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By Fred Ellis KEEP THE NEW MEMBERS— ACTIVIZE THE UNITS NEED OF WORKERS held by 120 educational, religious, charitable, ; 205 the Pe hax nmlected thin phase of work, | By SOLON DE LEON. ucational, religi heey Saas ue ee ee “sea ua se rie OE | OLD sein “held i tarehen lation’ and philanthropic institutions. that ae " ’ baci tet ci comfort is held out to e nation’s ; T Con I out tha active, many have made impermissible | en i Sachataer ane bbeiton tiodee Business Is Boomerang. he F member and some even have dropped out from millions of underpaid and unemployed | (Aes c ae int uld “r The Workers School of Boston has, | workers by the’ yearly report just issued of In its 35 years ue Pusioees) © anes ]so compro- hans ® for “ " So, x, york City. nropic Pawnshop” has grown from one = c r vi id also compr therefore, arranged a spe § for new rovident Loan Society of New York City. | thropic Pawn: : he Pa of the working — members. Special cirel tas s, are being | the: row tien : free room on the ground floor of the United x t be taken very — formed in sections outside of Boston. After announcing 498,537 loans made last | Charities Building, to 15 offices, 13 of them in ly by ev nd it is therefore year, the amount of which, $44,032,832, “was | buildings owned by itself, From 20,804 loans al impor t every district draws Spirit of Comradeship. in its first full year of operation, it has in- new A comradely attitude should be developed in the Part In many units the new recruited greater than in any previous year,” the report predicts “another year of increased activity to 498,537 in 1929, In the whole 35 it has made 11,253,932 loans, totalling ie A EHiec anal iictatue) ud Abe, | ciibrtberetaneiinetisrian antics reterRonee hich) and usefulness.” Apparently the society, | “Earnings” on. these loans ached, must be kept at once puts a damper on their enthusiasm. | which makes its money out of the want of the | amounted to $2 988,036. In. addition to pay- it st remembered that the | 1 petty discussions over small details and | workers, does not look forward to any im- ing ara Hate ip certeate Raise ® v to the appeal of the | Pp al matters at unit meetings hamper the | z i Mel ght handsome surplus of $10,626,07 en ac- s edintte Saeed SRE snot the weruite ito activity. eee provement in employment or wage rates. | cumulated, of which nearly $2,000,000 is in- : Party ceasele tional days are over and all the members must | Shylocks at Work, | vested in Fal estate errs Thal new xpect to find | Incidentally the report throws a light on | As in’ any pawnshop, would-be borrowers on Snahy coctasions comradeship because they are ready to fight the enormous profits made in the money-lend- | are compelled to leave “pledges” in the form NeW. Battord: le by side with the comrades without hesi- ing game, even when on a “respectable” and | of clothing, furniture, watches, or other goods er Bree WOere | Ano) Urey ake aueiode Re RapRCETEI tee | “legitimate” basis. Nick-named thé “Philan- | that can be sold if the loan is not repaid. ae sr Mer acete: | betieneas ine theths facts elee ani satopel eine thropic Pawnshop,” the Provident Loan So- | Increasing hard times are shown in the rise in nrades are full of enthus. | comrades for what these experiences might be ciety was organized in 1894 to lend money to | number of cases where the pledges were sold w best to carry out worth, They are in want of knowledge. A needy persons at no “greater rate than 1 per | at auetion, from Jess than per cent in 1927 ances can be enu- healthy attitude can capitalize this condition. cent per month or fraction thereof,” or 12 | to slightly over 1 per cent in 1928 and 1929. For too long a time has an uncomradely atti- per cent a year. The supposed legal rate of The same trend is shown by the drop in sur- c show how t new I 5 i 2 ohh ej eaens a i 3 Fale oS rk state is 6 per cent an- | plus realized for borrowers in these sales ready .to carry out | tude existed in our Party. We must develop interest in New Yor : eae re an cee, Cay ie cee eadackig, ifauk aeteiy Racue velop atte nually, but this does not apply to pawn- | from $85,000 three years ago to only $70,000 1, is to activize the | activity through comradeship. ' brokers. last year, while losses from sales éaliog on Necro acest ; ; the Society went up from $20,000 to $35,000 i m of the new recruits We must also be careful not to use involved The 12 peri ccnbrper year whichithe woaaty agciets P § 1 but definite steps must Our Base in the Shops. vizing of the units must not be eral way, Special attention paid to formation of shop nu- readily grasp the It affords them im- on concrete issues, i and can carry on. The en on the job and the t is that'we have already several shop i functioni We must remember that | ily when we succeed in transforming the arty into shop nuclei, and when we keep the new members active in these nu- i, then—and only then—can we call the iting Drive a success. uits units xe ideological level of the t not be neglected. It is a ity to acquaint the new ’s program. Not mere t the program of the ues which the workers For a long time rete is grasp readily. ey JOHN LAWSON. By t economic crisis develops sharper every day and week. The nd their social-fascist flun- reasing signs that they are dump overboard the so-called forms of state and establish open on conditions become ripe for it. President Hoover, here too, takes , in outlining the role of the govern- s to the Boy Scouts, that xists for the “republic” and ust be eradicated” that the ted .for the individual. is slogan naturally is being broadened 1 developed to its final logical conclusion se who elected Hoover to serve their Therefore we find already that at tin the Ohio State Chamber of erce held last week, Gen. G. Harbord, n of the board of the Radio Corp. of a addressing the meeting, expounding i neories about democracy. unmistakable drift toward pure ocracy is an evil omen. Not all peopie lead at the same time. The armies of cracy cannot consist entirely of gener- Some of our people must serve while e others lead.” And in order not to be mistaken as to who s to be chosen to do the leading not only na- lly but internationally and whotis to do ing he states clearly that “responsibil- ities of meeting new world-wide reSponsibili- ties that had come to America thru its varied leadership, rested squarely upon such bodies as the Chamber of Commerce.” This is a clear indication that the ruling ass is laying the ideological basis for usher- z in fascism when the ebjective conditions ant. it. Social Fascists Not Behind Times. per “ascist Schemes of Ohio ‘Socialists’ | Mussolini? , March 6th Demonstrations Show expressions whose meanings have become ob- secured through constant meaningless repeti- tions which throws the new members back upon themselves in a disappointment that strangles hope for real accomplishment. More System In Work. A point of great consideration is the prompt- ness and exactitude of carrying on our activ- ity. There has been too much looseness in the activity, especially of the units. Meetings begin at all hours and comrades report when they wish. In many ‘cases, thanks to the new recruits, this has been remedied. But the new members must not be the ones to correct wrong practices. A stop must be made to laxity in our work. The new members are bringing in new life, new vitality, and new enthusiasm into the Party. To activize them means to imbue our Pai with these qualities; it means to eradi- cate our Party of wrong ‘precedents which kept the Party isolated; it means that the correct policy, which resulted in bringing in these new elements, is being carried out and | that our Party is advancing toward becoming a mass Party of the American proletariat. which has been practiced here in the last year. The Citizen’s League, an organization of petty bourgeois lawyers and politicians sup- ported J. Willard for city council at the last elections for city council. But a more clear expression came from their nominee for governor, Joseph W. Shartz, ex- pounding his open fascist theory of govern- ment ih which the interests who want favors from the governrhent should have direct repre- sentation. Applying this to Cleveland he pointed out that: “The members of the city council would be chosen half by your Chamber of Com- merce and your Van Sweringens and the other half by the Federation of Labor.” As if the Federation represented the inter- ests of the working class! What is this if not the fascist syndicates as those set up by Not a word mentioned in the platform about the present economic crisis and its effects upon the working class. Not a word men- tioned about the war danger and war prepara- | tions against the Soviet Union. Th cident. The socialist party openly bidding its help to save the shaky position of capitalism, cannot but continue the policy of the capitalist | class, considering itself a more effective tool to fool the workers. Attitude of Workers. There is no doubt that the demonstrations held on March 6th in this state, under the leadership of the Communist Party of unem- ployed and employed workers in which around 125,000 workers participated, and the militan- cy displayed by the workers in the demon- strations struck fear in the hearts of the rul- ing class, They realize that in the struggle of the millions of workers for Work or Wages, they strike at the very roots of capitalism. Bill Haywood’s Book By BERTHA BRANTHAL, MERICA, which has always been described by the social democrats and the reformist trade union leaders .as the paradise of the workers, in which the proletariat can reach a high standard of living without any struggles is now in the throes of great revolutionary movements, called forth by the severe economic crisis which throws millions of workers out of work and plunges them into utter misery. A book throwing a very interesting light on the development of the American labor move- ment in the last half century and one which is practically indispensable to every worker who wishes to have a historical background to the present working class movement in imperialist America is Bill Haywood’s book. It vividly and graphically describes the decade-long hard, bloody struggles of the American workers for decent wages and the eight-hour day, and against the arbitrariness and brutality of the employers. Bill Haywood himself has played no small part in these struggles. He was born in 1869 in the West of Americ: boy to work for his living. He lost one eye at the age of seven, but this loss does not seem to have handicapped him in his active and adventurous career. At the age of 15 he got a job in a mine and experienced all the hard- ships of a miner’s life. He soon developed a | fighting spirit which was outraged by the sight h he of a terribie lynching of a Tegzo, witnessed in his boyhood, and by the ghastly | massacre of the Piute Indians at Thacker Pass, when men, womensand children were killed while asleep, although the Indians had com- mitted no offense. But the turning point in Haywood’s life was the Chicago Haymarket case in 1886, when eight revolutionary strike leaders were convict- ed and executed on the trumped up charge of having thrown a bomb in Haymarket Square on May 4. By quoting the simple and inspir- ing speeches delivered by the accused before the court, Haywood has helped to enshrine the memory of these brave workers in the heart of every proletarian, striving for the emancipa- tion of his class. And as a counterpart to these of them lasting for years, for the enforcement of the eight-hour day and higher wages, the terrible atrocities of the military and citizen’s alliance whick had been called in by the em- ployers, the explosions in the mines, the de- portations, murders of miners during these strikes are vividly described in the book. With the growth of industrig] unionism the | revolutionary workers of America felt the need and had already as a | for the formation of one general organization which would comprise all the unions and fight on a common basis of class struggle against the exploiters. The Western Federation of Miners took the initiative, and in conjunction with the American Labor Union and the United Railway Workers Union, the Industrial Work- ers of the World (I.W.W.) was founded in 1905. This organization, which was founded by Eug-~> V. Debs, has also to tts credit the mili- tant leadership of a number of strikes, such as the Lawrence textile workers and Paterson silk strikes, each of which involved 25,000 workers, the strike of the rubber workers at Akron, ete. But the LW.W. was soon rent by inner differences, split into two wings on personal grounds, weakened by the withdrawal of the W.F.M., which after Bill Haywood’s resignation became an opportunist body and finally landed in the camp of the A.F.L. A3 a result, the I.W.W., which was savagely per- | secuted by the whole bourgeoisie on account of its class and anti-war activities, got involved in a trial, which ended in the class court, in an atmosphere dominated by war fever and anti- red hysteria, sentencing all the leaders of the organization to long terms of imprisonment up to 20 years. When Bill Haywood, after a year imprisonment, left America for good in 1929, to find brotherly hospitality among the Rus- sian workers, the I.W.W. in America collapsed completely. Bill Haywood, who died on May 18 in Moscow and lies buried under the: Kremlin wall in the Red Square, was the typical representative of the American working lass. Unbribable, filled with unquenchable hatred against the ex- ploiters and their State, fearless of dangers, self sacrificing, in theory he lacked a clear outlook of the future of the working class, of the function of the State andthe role of revolutionary party. He was not a Marxist, but a syndicalist, who. believed in the unions taking over the control of industry, according charges the unfortunates who come to it for loans resulted last year in net “earnings” of nearly $2,275,000, Of this amount over $1,- 000,000 went to pay 6 per cent interest to the holders of nearly $20,000,000 worth of gilt- edged “certificates of contribytion,” which are practically bonds on the misery of the borrowers. “It is also interesting to note,” states the society, “that over $6,000,000 of the outstanding certificates of contribution are in the same time. One appalling feature of the society’s report is the smallness of the sums, lack of which drives workers into the arms of the pawnshop fraternity. Of the nearly 500,000 loans made last year, almost 18,000 were for $1 to $4; 88,000 were for $5 to $9; 46,000 were for $10 to $14; about 35,000 were for $15 to $19; and nearly as many were for $20 to $24. Fifty-three per cent of all Ioans were for $49 and under. . Member ot Lovestone’s “National Council” Repudiates Right Wing EDITORIAL NOTE—The statement by Paul Siro once more shows the degradation of the right wing Lovestone group, its alli- ance with the traditional enemies of the Party and its unscrupulous and unprincipled attack against the Communist International and the working class. Paul Siro, who was a member of the National Council of the* Lovestone group shows in his statement that in order to fight the Party and the Comimu- nist International, Lovestone was ready to allign himself with Halonen, who was ex- pelled from the Party because of the social democratic political line followed by him in the Finnish Cooperatives. 8 Siro’s statement reveals the alliance of Love- stone with Brandler and Roy who today openly fight the Sixth Congress decisions,. who have raised the cry that the October Revolution is being defeated and howled against the “domin- ation of the Comintern by the Russians.” Life itself eliposed the social democratic poli- tical platform of Lovestone and the interna- tional right wing. The very experiences of thé working class definitely proved the correctness of the decisions of our Party and the Com- munist International. Those few proletarian elements, who because of years of traditional factional struggle were misled by Lovestone, now recognize their mistakes and the counter- revolutionary line Lovestone follows today. * * * 'E see today an intense development of the contradictions of world capitalism bringing about an ever greater danger of war, imper- ialist war against the U.S.S.R., wars among the. imperialist States themselves, and colonial wars. The pressure upon the working class (speed-up, wage cuts, unemployment, etc.), as a result of these contradictions isdriving them to the left, so that this period is marked by great mass struggles, in which. the working class is assuming the counter offensive, and which are intensifying the internal antagon- isms in the capitalist countries. America is not exempted from this general crisis of world capitalism. The U. S. became the starting point for the world crisis of capi- talism. On the other hand the United States is showing greater aggressiveness in the strug- gle for markets and the most important sources of raw materials. This brings it into sharp antagonism with the gigantic colonial monopoly Right errors and mistakes were often smoothed over. When the C.I. put an end to factionalism in the American Party with the Address, many comrades were so embodied with factions that they could not understand clearly the criticism and line laid down by the C.I. Address, When the C, I. Address first came out I ac- cepted it and made a tour of the district and received a hundred per cent vote in favor of the Address. When comrades began to mobilize against the C. I. and its political line and were expelled for refusing to submit to C. I, decisions and to the line of the Address, com- vades whom I had always fought for and de- fended, the old factional spirit came out and I began to find flaws where there were none. I thought the C. I. was turning the Party over to the former minority. To strengthen my wrong position, some of the Finnish members of the Party such as Syvanen, who has since dropped out of the Party, whose social-dem- oeratic tendencies I had carried on a cealess fight against, accepted the Address as a vic- tory for the minority and persecuted and at- tacked me with their “I told you so’s” and “you have always been a right winger,” ete. This was a wrong position to take. I should have studied the Address, not in the factional spirit that I did, but in a clear Bolshevik man- ner. I have since then studied the Address and am convinced that through the Address the C. I. was making a serious effort to end all fac- tionalism and giving the ‘correct line with which the American Party could become a mass party. I have seen that the Party is deter- mined to carry out the line of the C, I. in end- ing all factionalism and ridding the Party of all social-democratic, petty-bourgeois, right wing tendencies, The Lovestone group is openly a right wing group and an enemy of the working. class. They are fighting the Comintern, trying to undermine its influence upon the working masses of the world. They have taken the initiative to suggest an international confer- ence with such right wingers as Brandler, Thalheimer and Roy and the Swedish opposi- tion, to organize an international right wing opposition against the Comintern, They are seeking an alliance with Halonen, who was ex- pelled for his petty-bourgeois, social-democra- tic tendencies. That is the first step towards an alliance with Lore and Cannon. Lovestone has been sent to Canada to play the role of On this policy the capitalist class by no | The capitalist class realized that all of to the principles of the W.F.M. “by means Wala aie | i 'y_| Pepper in the American Party convention, as means stand alone, In Italy it took some time | Hoover's prophecies about “turning the cor- bee ora oe ve ete oe bale ha lease, bond, location or purchase.” on this si of bras ey ant a a fag Paes | seta aad organizer of the right wing ele- for the social-fascists until they came out ner” is mere empty talk, They themselves are ener tak spect his spéech at the III. World Confress | working class brought about by capitalist ele Me ee e Canadian Party in preparation openly in support of Mussolini. In the U.S. forced to admit that in the month of Febru- , that: of the Communist International is very char- | tionaligation. There is a will to defend itself | actions, if ethine Gee, candian Party. These the s cial reformists are in the lead. At the ary, which usually shows a seasonal increase “He has differed all his life from the prin- acteristic; he openly declared that the Russian | which is often turned into a will to take the ers the El eee bey alk proveto the work- convention of the Ohio. Socialist Party, held in production, employment and production ciples antl methods of the condemned? Revolution was won not by the Communists counter offensive. This is exemplified b; the an ¢ ‘ ovestone group is as much an here on March 15th, 16th, whieh according to | have been on the decline. They know that Pi but by the workers. In making this distinc- | wave of strikes throughout the countr pa the Pectine of the Workers as the Hoover adminis- the announcement of the Chairman Mandel- March 6th was not the end but the beginning | ;, portrayed in the following scathing manner: | tion, Haywood showed his complete lack of un- | m.ss demonstrations (March 6) v ration and should be fought as such, korn was “indicating a renaiseence of the | of sharper struggles of the workers against derstanding of the relationship of the Party In thi iod i After studying the C. I. Address and the hes Party, th oy proclaim, that they are: “plan- | capitalism. ‘ j ; “This squat, specimen of humanity ¢er- to the working class, and its indispensable role % is seats ie intense war danger, of Tenth Plenum Thesis and witnessing the work ning to liberalize our platform and no longer “The capitalist class and with them the social | tainly did not personify the membership of | as leader. Further he claimed that the paraly- | rte) 74! ie ion marked by the ever in- | of the Lovestone group, I have become con- stracise those believing in our principles who | fascists know that democratic illusions are | the American Federation of Labor. Sam | sis of Russian industry at the time (Summer | ¢YC#8!N& Tadical ization of the working masses, | vinced that my place is in the Party, fighting un on tickets of other parties.” An open bid | loosing ground among the masses of workers. | was yery short and chunky with a big head | 1921) was due to the fact that the Russian | ‘@,Working class needs leadership, strong mili- | side by side with comrades under the leader- o the ®apitalist class for the mutual support, Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. * 43 East 125th Street, New York City. e I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. AddreSS ...+sccecvevcermeres Ult¥evercoere Occupation Age...... Therefore these preparations for open fascism by both. But the workers show more clearly than ever before that they cannot be fooled any more neither by their open enemies, the capitalist class, nor by their capitalist tools, the socialist party. Under the leadership of the Communist Party, the workets will march to victory fighting both. China Masses Fight on World Women’s Day SHANGHAI, March 10 (Inprecorr mail) —On the 8th March numerous demonstrations took place in various parts of Shanghai for the celebration of International Women’s Day. The police broke up the demonstrations and tried to prevent the distribution of leaflets, The tramways were held up for a time and col- lisions occurred during the course of which the police fired, wounding a number of persons. 10 arrests were made. ‘The leaflets which were distributed called for the arming of the proletariat and the defense of the Soviet Union. Be a : that was bald in patches, resembling a child suffering with ringworm. He had small, snapping eyes, a hard, cruel mouth, wide with thin drooping lips, heavy jaws and jowls.- A personality vain, conceited, petu- lant and vindictive. Looking at him I could realize the passion of cruelty with which this person would wield power if he had it. It was easy to understand how Gumpers could plead for men who were facing the noose of the executioners with his tongue in his cheek and his heart reeking with hypocrisy. One could realize that he might even refer jokingly to the defeat of a great labor strug- gle, if it were being conducted by an organ- ization that was not strictly in accordance with his views. To look at him was to know that he could protest against giving relief to women and children.” The most brilliant pages of Haywcod’s life are closely connected with his activity 2s secre- tary and leader of the Western Federation of Miners, which was founded in 1893 out of the knights of labor. The glorious history of this working class was not organized economically, and that it would have been much easier for Russian industry to recover, if the Russian workers had enjoyed the same revolutionary een training as the members of the I. Although the record of Bill Haywood’s life is so rich in heroic struggles against the all- powerful Dollar capitalism and must ever re- main a source of inspiration to all class-con- scious workers, it confirms in the most striking manner Lenin’s famous dictum, that without revolutionary theory there can be no revolution- ary practice. os It remains the historical task ofthe Com- munist Party of America, under the leadership and guidance of the Comintern, to take over and preserve the best traditions of the mili- tant and class conscigus movement of which Bill Haywood was such an outstanding -repre- sentative, combining them with the correct, Marxist-Leninist theory by which alone it will be possible to build up a real revolutionary tant leadership to lead them in class battles and for the overthrow of the present system. Such a leadership only the Communist Party can give them, following the line of the’C.I. But to be able to give the correct leadership to the working class the Party members must under- stand and carry out the line of the C.I. Not only is it necessary to carry out but also to agree with the line. correctly any political line without understand- ing it and believing it to be correct. Only with a unified party following the line of the C.I. can the Communist Party hope to carry out its role of leading the working class in its class battles. Before the Comintern Address the Party was hindered from carrying out its revolutionary tasks by factionalism. Tho there were no basic political differences between the two former groups the C.I. stated, every convention and meeting would result in hair splitting, more or less personal antagonism. These political differences that did exist were blurred with factionalism and lost their political contents, No real bolshevik self-criticism prevailed. One cannot carry out | ship of the C. I. against the capitalist system, and against such traitors as Lovestone, Can- non. and Halonen. I regret that it has taken this long for me to break with the Lovestone group. As I saw the results of the line I was following I began to have my doubts, but did not have the courage to break all relations with the Lovestone group, until now.. I ask to be reinstated into the Party and wish to prove by actual work amongst the working class my-loyalty to the Communist Interna- tional, Long live the Communist International! March 20, 1930, (Signed) PAUL SIRO. Notes from the South The workers in Charleston dry-dock: recently paid off on Friday, the mas aay telte a legal holiday. However, instéad of being called to receive their pay fifteen minutes be- fore stopping time, and having two or three paymasters pay off so the workers could get out on time as usual, they were made to work TERE ‘ . stig ; . f ‘ i 4 f § . until stopping time ard th Mail this to the Central Office. Communist | Similar demonstrations took place in Nanking, | union, which conducted big strikes of the‘niners | mass Party capable of overthrowing that col- Charges of “right wingers, pett; ” ‘en one paymaster ike yy. 43 Host 125th St, New York, N. Y. Wuhan, and Tsinanf». at Colorado City, Ogprle Creek, Denver, some | ossus—American imperialism, eye ‘were runping capt ren ag Maat ake Marea oe i ele il see able te . sas : yy ‘ : pane ts a