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P. Si Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Tne, Gails excent Sund age Six Square, New York C N.Y. Telephone Stuyvesant 7-8. Cable. “DALWE e Adiress and mail all checks to the Daily Worker. 26-28 Union Square, New York ishments, Reports upon ca ¢ will be news and plan printed in this colu districts are requi er regularly about ¢ snrress, ments, Sections 1, 3, 7 and 8, New York City, mob- ilized their members on April 6 for a Red Sunday. Visiting workers homes in Section One resulted in 40 weekly customers for the Daily Worker in Section 3; 33 in Section 7; 66 in Section 8 e carrier s will be increased to 100 and more in each Section, and then a newsboy or unemployed worker will be employed to carry the papers every ¢ will be anot in New Section 500 200; Si 3 Sec- tion 4, ion 5, 100; Section This me vorkers homes will be visited. The United Coun of Working Wom York District, has pledged f 300 subscriptions. In Perth Amboy, Newark and Pate N 400 D: at factory gat were distributed in rece and from ho’ Actual factory house to house oceuring in New York follow: 1, 1,250 in section 25 in section section 4, 44 m5, 1,100 1,815 in sectio 50 in section 9. The new Southern districts of the Party are organizing for Daily Worker distributions in 14 cit ae The Pioneers in Providence, R. I., are mob izing their members to sell the Daily Worker The mill bosses are worrying about the ap- pearance of the Daily on the streets. One mill boss offered to buy all the papers one of the Pioneers had “to burn.” The Pioneer kept on selling his papers. News from Minersville, Pa., the anthracite district. The Daily has been trying to break into this coal territory for weeks. The Miners- ville Party unit writes: “We have unanimo ly and enthusiastically accepted the program for the campaign. _ We realize this program to be a method whereby we can reach American workers for our movement. unit placed an order for bundles for Minersville, Potts- ville, Forestville, Reinterton. “We succeeded in placing the paper in three more news stands,” writes our agent in Man- chester, N. H. DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN Red Sundays Are Effective at of 98 Philadelphia and Seattle have in prospect the distribution of 25,000 copies each to help in the mobilization for the May Day demonstra- tions. Detroit has ordered 100,000 and New York is contemplating a distribution of 140,- 0CO for this same purpose. ieee aes A tag day and house to hou: be held in District 2, May 9, 1( eral thousand dollars will be collec’ us develop circulation Boston has increased its from 50 to 500 a day e collection will d 11. Sev- ted to help in new fields. y bundle order * 9 : 10,000 Daily Worker august 1 A goal of $1,000 in May Day greetings for the May Day edition of tke Daily Worker, has been set. A crippled wo: teran of Painesville, at his name be kept 2 mailing list until he gets his pension. ing contributions for the support of the ly will enable us to keep many militant workers as readers, who for the moment can not renew. Organizing Forces For the Campaign an The Detroit slogan Readers in Detroit by writes requ Immediate Task. The Party Plenum may have resulted in some in organizing the Party forces for the npaign. Now that all comrades have re- turned to their districts the mobilization of the Party members for enthusiastic participa- tion in the campaign becomes a first t: mediate attention must be given to that of the campaign program headed “Party Mob- ilization and Organization for the Campaign.” 1. Has your district ro discussed the cam- paign program and concretely applied it to ? 2. Have you elected your district ee and section campaign com- Is your district Daily Worker sentative and are your section Daily Worker representatives sufficiently capable to help give leadership to the campaign? 4. Have the units discussed the campaign program? 5. Is your district agitprop director clarifying the role of the Daily Worker to the Party membership? 6. Have you assigned quotas to all Par’ ions and units? 7. Are you in- stituting revolutionary competition? 8. Have you adopted concrete plans to establish a per- manent Daily Worker corference at your united front conference for the May Day dem- onstrations? 9, Have you issued a synopsis of the campaign program for every Party unit, every Party member? These ta: must be attended to within the week. Within a week we must have a report from you indicating that the Party member- ship is in action. And remember, this cam- paign is your district headquarters city alone. in your district where the Party has membership must enter this campaign under the direction of your dis- trict campaign committee. Forward to Build the Southern Weekly! HE drive for the Southern weekly newspaper is almost at an end. We have only two weeks left before the first of May, the day on which the drive will end. Nevertheless, the response to this drive to date has been very weak. Of the quota assigned, only one-quarter has been collected. With the exception of a few papers—Finnish Eteenpain which surpassed already the qu of $300 by $140, thus gaining first place in the drive, with the exception of the Finnish Punniki which fulfilled its quota one hundred per cent and the Esthonian Uus Ilm which also fulfilled its quota one hundred per cent—the majority of the papers involved in the drive have not shown a full understanding of the importance of this drive. Not all the papers have published the appeals of the Party, or, having published the appeal, it was hidden in some obscure corner of the paper without any comment or appeal of the paper itself. Some of the papers sent a sum of money taken directly from the treasury of the paper itself, instead of really appealing to the masses of readers, to the masses of the members of the fraternal organizations closely connected with the paper. It is not a case that masses do not respond, for we see the contrary in the ease of the Finnish and Esthonian papers which did make an appeal to the masses and got very good response. The same is true of the Novy Mir, Ny Tid and some others. The failure is on the part of the language bureaus and the editorial staffs of some of the papers in the carrying out of the party in- structions. This is clearly an underestimation of the readiness of the masses to respond to appeals of this kind, and a failure on the part of the language bureaus and editorial staffs to |Ny Tid (Scandinavian). feel the need for solidarity with the struggles of the southern workers. The three party dailies, Radnik, Rovnost Ludu and Vilnis, with headquarters in Chicago, did not in any way answer this drive. This is a direct and impermissible negligence which must be promptly corrected. The Southern weekly must be issued and made possible by the solidarity of the language press, to whom the party has given the task of collecting the $6,000 needed. |Uj Elore (Hungarian).. By the first of May we must have this quota collected, Will any of the party papers show that they do not understand the importance of building this new weapno for the working class in the South, that they do not hear the appeal ef the southern workers? Will some of our language papers, by their failure to answer, bring this drive to a defeat c-d prevent the issuance of this southern weekly? We are confident that in the last two weeks of the drive all the papers which have not yet re- sponded to the drive or have responded inade- quately will make every effort to place them- selves first in the drive. Forward to build the Southern Communist weekly! To build a new Party weapon in the South! All papers involved in this drive should send their full quota before Friday, April 25th, to the language department of the CC, CPt RESULTS A SOUTH- <LY NEWSPAPER Quota Per Language. Assigned. Result, Cent. Liberator (Negro) .....$ 60 Tyomies (Finnish) Toveri (Finnish) ... Toveritar (Finnish) Punikki (Finnish) § Eteenpain (Finnish) . 540,21 Laisve (Lithuanian) .... 200.00 Vilnis (Lithuanian) . Peltier Wd Freiheit (Jewish) 100.00 ii Ukrainian Daily News... 90.00 14] Rovnost Ludu (Czecho- slovak) ; tie Obrana (Czechoslovak) .. 26.00 Radnik (South Slav). Novy Mir (Russian). es: 2 2 Empros (Greek) ....... Il Lavoratore (Italian).. Zaznanie (Bulgarian) Arbeiter (German) ..... Nor Ashkhar (Armenian) Amerikhas 1 tish) 50 14.00 28 Uus Ilm (Esthonian). 30 30.00 100 LOCOS Ue aes ceed 790 $1456.03 “20 LANGUAGE WPARTMENT CC. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. 1, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. Name . ‘Address .. seeecccemmesce Uityecereeees Occupation ........seseceeeresers ABC reese Mail this to the Central Office. Communist _ Party, 43 East 120th St.. New York, N. Y. | Doctors Get More Than Injured RALEIGH, N. C.—The State Industrial Com- mission exhibit showed in 50 cases that injured workers got $5,282 while $11,833 went to doc- tors and hospitats, When a $15 a week worker lost 28 weeks, he got $257—the doctors and hospitals $505. A $9.50 a week worker lost 12 weeks, got $72, while doctors and hospitals got $1,181. A $6 Union { N.Y, Central Organ of the Communi | Case of Wall Street vs. The Committee Elected by 110,000 Workers! Worker it Party of the U.S. A. By R. PALME DUTT (London). blishment of the new millionaire Herald” should open the eyes of every worker who has still a lingering hope in the Labor Party What does it mean? Capitalism finds it to its interest to run, and to pay for, an official labor paper—in other words, to subsidize the Labor y to the tune of a million pounds. Why? Not for love of workers. There could be no clearer demonstration of the true relationship of capitalism and the Labor Party. Capitalism is running the “Daily Herald” today for the same reasdn that it runs the “Daily Mail”’—to corrupt and paralyse the working cl. The old methods no longer suf- The old Chauvinist Conservative and Liberal “popular” Press is no longer suffi- cient; the workers begin to see through it. Necessary to Capitalism. Capitalism finds it necessary to run a “La- bor” paper, just as it finds it necessary to run a “Labor” Government, for the final de- ceit of the workers, For tens of y platform, the capi nounced. Every I climbed to office h from every working class list press has been de: Minister who has denounced the capitalist bor it and to fight it. Today a new fact must be registered. The official Labor Press is a direct part of the capitalist press, an organ of the single capitalist trust octopus. What Is Social Fasci The new move constitutes a d seale offensive of Social-Fascism in Britain. What is Social-Fascism? The essential character of Social-Fascism is the driect or- ganization of an official “Labor” or “Socjal- Democratic” machine as an integral part of the capitalist state machine against the work- ers. The old dual tem, dating from the perio! of capitalist stability, of a capitalist governing machine on one side and a loose reformist Labor movement on the other side, in nominal opposition, but under a leadership which systematically betrayed the workers at every critical point, now gives way, as the whole class struggle grows more intense, to a unitary system. } Capitalism now takes directly in hand “La- bor” ‘organization as an ntial part of its organization, while all independent working class organization and activity becomes stead- ily more and more illegal. legal” in relation to the official Labor move- ment, which bans, expels and victimizes all direct workers’ activity, and finally illegal directly in relation to the police system a/l- ministered by the capitalist state machine in union with the labor bureaucrats. Mondism. Since the General Strike we have seen the transformation of the trade unions into a part of the employers’ and state apparatus through the policy of Mondism, and the transformation of the Labor Party into a systematic govern- ing party of capitalism, with a Labor Govern- ment acting as the executive of capitalism. The final absorption of the “Daily Herald” m? ect and large- worker lost three weeks, got $21, while doctors and hospitals got $120, The Daily Werker is the Party's hest instrument to make contacts among ite masses of workers, to build a inass Communist Party. into cirect capitalist ownership is the third and culminaiing phase of thia process, The terms of agreement between the capi- talist trust of Odhams, Limited, and the Trades Union Congress lay down that the capitalist trust is to own 51 per cent of the shares, and the Trales Union Congress 49 per cent. Here, alike in this harmonious partnership and in the proportion of the shares, is expressed with press, has preached to the workers to despise | It becomes “il- | The New Millionaire “Daily Herald” arithmetical simplicity the essence of Social- Fascism. Must Steal From Workers. It ignificant that capitalism and Social- cism can only establish their system of corruption by stealing from the workers, Just as the old revolutionary “Marseillaise” became and remains today tthe official hymn of the counter-revolutionary money-lords of the French Republ as the trade unions, set up by the work revolt and sacrifice in the face of capita rrorism, become today the instrument of capitalist domination of the working cl so the “Daily Herald,” set up militancy and sacrifice as an organ of rebellion against capitalism and of- ficial labor, becomes today the chosen instru- ment of capitalism and official labor for the domination and enslavement of the workers. The old “Daily Herald” was created by the workers’ revolt. It was hated and denounced, not only by the eapitalists, but by the official Labor leaders. The workers gave to it their devotion and their sacrifice, their tireles’ labor and their pennies. It is workers’ property that these labor bureaucrats have, in a very simple and literal sense, sold to the capitalist mil- lionai The official labor movement could never te a newspaper; the failure of the “Daily Citizen” showed this. The “Daily Citizen” had behind it the power of the Labor Party and trade union chine; but it was born dead. The Old “Rebel” Herald. The love and service of the workers went to the “rebel” “Daily Herald,” which, with all its weaknesses, was in its first stage a genuine organ of militancy, an organ of bitter fight against the capitalists and the labor traitors. How the labor bureaucracy felt about it can be seen in the statement of Allen, the busi- ness manager for the “Daily Citizen”: “It is no exaggeration to say that the ‘Daily Herald’ in its early days did more to hinder the successful launching of the first Labor daily than any agent of capital- ism or of the capitalist press. Its wrecking tactics, its unqualified abuse, and the ser- ious effects of its unscrupulous agitation, when Bruce Glasier, Anderson, Henderson, MacDonald and others were raising the funds to establish the ‘Daily Citizen’ can never be forgotten. . . . “Fortunately, the courage and idealism of George Lansbury in the second stage of the ‘Herald’s’ life has softened some of these memories.” (Allen, in “D. H.” 6.2.25.) How familiarly close this language to the language on the Communists today! The “Daily Herald” today dares to claim to be descended from the old “Daily Herald” of 1912, Let it reprint some of the articles of those days; let it reprint extracts, not from a century ago, like other newspapers, but “From Our Pages of Eighteen Years Ago”; let it re- print what it wrote of MacDonald, of Snow- den, of Thomas; let it reprint the cartoons of Dyson on these statesmen; let it reprint the article for which it was sued by Thomas in the capitalist law courts, and had to pay £200—and the workers will be able to see a living picture of the meaning of renegadism, of the maning of the transition to Social- Fascism. The death of the “Daily Herald” was a long and gradual one, as the forces of capitalism slowly conquered it, The Lansbury regime al- ready changed its character, and brought in the elements of pacifism, of middle-class so- cialism, and of Chiistianity; but it still re- tained contacts with the mass movement, and RAT: two SUBSCRIPTIO! ail everywhere: One year $6; six months titan and Bronx, New York City, and fore onths $1; excepting Boroughs of , Which are; One year $8; six months $4.50 — | NATIONAL PEACE FEW days ago was the 8th anniversary of the Caucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Re- public (CSFSR), which is one of the equal members of the USSR. The political and economic interests of the working masses of all the republics and auto- nomous regions of the Caucasus urgently de- manded unity for using their fo! on the general front of -socialist construction. The when a historical n allied agreement for the constitution s of all the Caucas ment was signed, which served as a basi of the CSFSR, “The plenipotentiaries of the Socialist So- viet Republics of Azerbaidjan, Armenia, and Georgia,” states the document, “in view the rights of peoples to self-determination as set out by the great proletarian recognizing the independence and sovereignty of each of the contracting parties, and recog- nizing the necessity of concentrating our forces for the defense and in the interests of industrial and agricultural construction, re- solve that henceforth the Socialist Soviet R: publies of Azerbaijan, Armenia and in Geors conclude in themselves a close military, pol tical and economie alliance.” Abolish Racial Antagonism. With the formation of the federation there was set up a durable national peace between the peoples of the Caucasus, which has long been the arena of the fiercest _ national enmity, which was embittered by the ‘provoca- tional policy of Russian absolutism. The short but fameless period of Menshevik rule, which sold the Caucasus wholesale to various imperialists as under ezarism, was also filled with national enmity and bloody battles be- union was brought about in 1922 at the con- | of | revolution, tween Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Only | the Soviet Power was able to bring about na- tional peace between the peoples of the Cau- ca such as was previously unthinkable, working with genuine Bolshevik energy to fulfil the behest of Lenin—“to form a speci- Birthday of Caucasian Soviet Republic never known under the ible under the bourgeois men of national peac bourgeoisie and impos rule.” Federation Strengthens. This specimen of national peace in the Cau- casus with its numerous tribes and natfonali- ties, has now been actually formed, and the Caucasian federation strengthens daily. The workers of the Caucasus have not only fully replaced the economy which was destroyed by war and intervention, but on the basis of the Five-Year Plan and with the help of the work- ers of the whole Soviet Union, they are rapidly converting these late “wilds” of the old ezar- ist empire into a prosperous, industrial and agrarian region. The industrial might of the Caucasus, in conformity with the whole of the national y of the Soviet government, is growing quicker than the industrial might of the U. 8. S. R. as a whole, and thus the economic in- between the CSFSR and the fore- most republics of the Union is being liqui- dated. The capital investment in the national economy of the Caucasus for the current five years reaches the tremendous sum of 2,619,- 400,000 roubles, out of which, industry receives UK 100,000 roubles. Industrial production will increase by 262 per cent during these five years, During the current year alone, large industry in the Caucasus will grow by 59 per cent (in Azerbaijan 52.6 per cent, Armenia 76.7 per cent, Georgia 59.9 per cent). This rapid growth of the industry of CSFSR is the best index of the correctness of the Bolshevik national policy, which converts the previous semi-colonies of czarist imperialism into hives of industry. A tremendous vance is going on in agri- culture in the Caucasu: A good proof of this seen in the mass movement of farm hands, poor and middle peasants into collec- tive farms. By spring, about one-third of all the peasant farms in the Caucasian Federa- tion will have entered collective farms. By JORGE A. VIVO. HE ferocity of American imperialism and | its Latin American servants is making it- self felt in the lives of the workers and peas- ants of Latin America. The crisis of capitalism, the same in the colonies as in the imperialist homeland, brings into play its antagonisms and contradictions, with the consequence of much suffering among the working masses. in the Caribbean. Lately, following the Wall Street crash and its consequent effects in a sharpening of the crisis in the coffee and sugar markets, and the falling value of silver, has occasioned ser- ious disturbances in the economy of the colon- ial and semi-colonial countries of the South. This has contributed to the intensification of the barbarous rationalization, and the di charge of thousands upon thousands of work ers from the factories, swelling the already large army of unemployed, This offensive of capitalism was accom- panied by a brutal attack of the governments, in which the social-fagcist leaders of the Amer ican Federation of Labor participated actively as the fascist organization of American im- perialism. Jobless Fight. The Latin-American day of the unemployed, organized under the direction of the Latin American Confederation of Trade Unions took on a mass character in many of the C countries and was followed by a reign terror. In Mexico and Columbia the demonstrations ihbean of were met at the point of the bayonet. In Panama, Guayaquil, San Salvador the bour- geoisie tried to stop the demonst ns under compulsion and threat. In Columbia, battles between the workers and the police continued for twelve hours in the streets of Medellin. The bloody terror of the authorities of that city constitutes a formidable experience in the history of the Latin-American countries. The workers of Medellin fought with tremendous vigor and militant spirit for the right to con- r the streets on Latin American Unem- yment Day, and to demonstrate for “Work or Wages.” 200,000 Strike in Cuba. In Cuba, in spite of the barbarous condi- tions of white terror of the Machado govern- ment, two hundred thousand workers left the factories and shops to show their determina- tion to gain their demands, and challenged the threats of the government. They defied the arrests prior to the demonstration which were made in order to hamper it. They voiced a tremendous protest against the barbarous econ- partially led it, though only to fail it at the critical points. Black Friday Marked the Break. Black Friday finally exploded this ambigu- ous position; it came down on the side of “unity” with the social-traitor bureaucracy. Within a year, in 1922, it was handed over to the Labor Party and Trades Union Congress, who put it in charge of a Northcliffe journal- ist. The remaining contacts with the workers rapidly disappeared, until its final sale to capi- talism today. Today, the new “Daily Herald” is, in fact, a new organ—a capitalist organ of Social-Fas- cism, established with enormous resources be- hind it to fight the militant working class advance and tie the workers to capitalism. Its directors hope to achieve a million sale with the aid of money, bribery and insurance schemes, etc. The Paper Membership. The significance of this should nut be under- estimated, The Labor Party, with its nom- inal two million membership, is built on a paper membership; its. individual members number two hundred tho€sand. The attempt to establish the million circula- tion of the “Daily Herald” is the attempt to establish for he first time a full large-scale organization of the capitalist Labor Party, an army of Social-Fascism at the mercy of an organ of lies and corruption. Against this enemy we need to fight with i all our power to expose its true character to | the workers as their principal enemy in the whole capitalist press, as the enemy of their struggle at every point Jobless Struggle in the Caribbean | | | eous persecutions” in the Soviet Union, omie and political oppression which exists on the island. The events of Medellin and the demonstra- tion of Cuba show without the slightest doubt the rapidly increasing radicalization of the masses of workers in Latin America and their mood to struggle for their final emancipa- tion. These two examples illustrate the admirable militancy that exists among the masses in the colonial countries and in the revolutionary movement and prove the genuine character of the anti-imperialist movement in those coun- tries. Role of Colonial Revolutionary Movement. The form in which in this period of crisis and down-grade of capitalism the new revolu- tionary waves advance, each time clearer and more militant, demonstrates the important role of the revolutionary movement in the colonial and semi-colonial countries, It places before the proletariat of the imperialist countries, es- pecially of the United States, which exercises the major sway on the South American con- tinent, the obligation to aid all the struggles of the masses in the Latin American coun- tries and to exercise in /a concrete manner the solidarity necessary and imperative to obtain the liberation of the exploited masses both in the colonial and semi-colonial and in the im- perialist countries themselves. The workers of the United States must demonstrate once again that they understand that there must be solidarity with the revo- lutionary movement of the Latin American countries and also consider especially the re- cent occurrences in Mexico, We must continue at the same time with our protests against the barbarous persecutions, which today are manifested so intensively in Cuba, Columbia, Mexico, Haiti, Panama, Gua- temala and El Salvador. We must continue and strengthen our links of solidarity with the workers and p s of these countries to obtain their emancipation from the yoke of imperialism and the native exploiters. European Peasants for De- fense of the U.S.S.R. CCORDING to the reports which have reached the Organization Committee of the European Congress of working peasants, it is already evident that complete unanimity pre- vails among the organizations and affiliated national sections of the various countries re- garding the necessity to include among the most important tasks the struggle against the imperialist war and for the defense of the So- viet Union. It is very significant that important organ- izations of toiling Catholic peasants publicly declare their will to defend the Soviet Union even after the open intervention of the fascist Pope, undertaken under the pretext of “religi- Thus, after the notorious appeal of the Pope for a crusade against the Soviet Union. O’Donnell, the leader of the national revolution movement. of Ireland and secretary of the Irish national committee for the preparation of the Peasants’ Congress, addressed an open letter to Cardinal MacRory, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, in which he stated: “I do not believe that people are impris- oned in the Soviet Union because they at- tend mass, or that priests are imprisoned because they hold a mass, that Bishops are killed because they fulfil their religious du- - ties. I believe that certain priests and hishops are imprisoned on account of their anti-Soviet political activity.” After citing the names of all catholic pricats of Ireland who have been imprisoned or killed by English imperialism without the Pope or the Cardinal of Ireland making any protest, he adds: “It is obvious that the English imperial- ists are preparing war against the Soviet Union, and if your Eminence intends to join in this recruiting campaign, which is destined to send Irishmen to death in the interest of English imperialism, then the great ma- jority of the catholic toiling Irish people will turn against your Eminence.” ety a eee | ene