The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1930, Page 4

smpueenemyerennetarnem remonicens able: DEMONSTRATIONS Adobted by th eeoisie ext as to the of the remely wary open- and Wol Communis' holdin ce 1 openly icago, police rai the Is were made on mmedia e, both emp counter-d F mc the same places advertised by the P. The socialist party, which has igno Day for years, this r atte d in New fork, Chicago, M nd other places to hold May Day mec to take the workers aw from the revolutionary demonstrations | organized by our Party. 1 In the the preparations of the bosses were exter thre were made that ai! from work would be rs remaining away « iarged. Police were concentrated at the factor in large numbers to terrorize the workers. Workers were denied the right to leave the shop at noon on May First for lunch. bands entertainments were in some cases pro (Detroit). Working hours were changed to foil the plans of the Party and the T.U.U,L. for mass picketing and factory meet- ings. In the South, the bosses or; 1 fa tist gangs to b kk up shop meetin All this of the bourgeoisie to prevent strikes and dem- onstrations on May Fir | The mobilization of the -vorkers, therefore, i on May Day, required much greater organ effo. previous demonstration organ- ized } The bringing of ove 2 000 workers into the streets was therefore a real achievement for our Party, while at @he same timeeemphasizing the need for more con- centrated factor ctivity (building nuclei and shop committees) to offset the more conscious | counter-measures of the . bourgeoisie. | 3. The prey ory work of the Party show- ed great imy rent as compared work in the The orientation of the y more decisively on the large fac- in most ts. Still insufficient orientation in this direction was shown how- ever, in Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. More dis shop papers were put out. The number of factory meetings greatly increased. Many hun- dreds of thousands of leaflets were put out principally at the fé The number of national lets put out ed from 250,000 on March 6 to a half million before May First. A half million of the special May y edi- tions of the I Worker was dis United front conferences > held sities with the Jefi-w . worker e Central Committee C. P. U.S. A. responding to the call of th lo: The demonstrations themselves were organ r than ever before. Whereas on March 6 ctically no organization prevailed in the demonstrations, on May Day, not only the Par- but other worker organizations participated with their own leader- and even their own In some cases (Baltimore, Kan- anooga and Rome) Negro wor ituted a large section of the parti- It was only this great improvement mnal preparations of the May ns which made it possible for ) mobilize the working masses de- e counter-preparations of the bourg- nd to force the granting of police per- 1 a rtumber of cities. The fact that the May Day demonstra- were smaller than those on M ty in an organized be ship, their own banners City, Ch, in the Day de rily, not to a change in the ol s to a deer e in the discontent es or to a slackening in their readi- ollow our leadership, as some comrades ild have it, but to the still insufficient x of the of the increas While the the Party on May Fi the full the principal weaknesses of the Party d preparations of revolutionary program reason for the demonstrations was our. inability to link up these demands with those which im- nd directly affect the workers , unemployment insurance, , the speed-up, etc.), on the one hand, to our organizational weakness on the other. These weaknesses were very greatly accentu- ated by a widespread reliance on the spontane- sed ous response of the masses, which expres in idle boasting about how much bigger May Day demonstrations would be than of March 6. The work was slow in start- No efforts were made to follow up the 6 demon: ons with efforts to or- and lead the struggle of the unemployed, to day shop work was neglected. where a foolish attitude of self-prais adopted and hasie preparatory work was not reh done. This substitution of idle boasting for serious preparatory work tendency to be- come dizzy from the success of the March 6 trations, was one of the chief reasons for the failure of the Party to mobilize the with the same degree of success on y D despite the more conscious counter- measures of the bourgeoisie. It was only during } t two weeks that the Party really began » overcome its dizziness and to thoroughly and energetically take up the work. While generally there was a considerable syovement in the work of the Party in the Day preparations, this improvement, when considers the great experiences gained by the Party on March\6, was entirely insuffi- nt. In some cases (Detroit, Pittsburgh, eland) the work was decidedly unsatisfac- tory. The conscious and widespread counter- asures of the bourgeoisie to narrow down the mass respense, on the one hand, and the re- sponse of well over 300,000 workers on the other hand, more sharply than ever before em- phasizes the necessity of more seriously ex- ining our weaknesses and of taking decisive measures to overcome them in the shortest possible time. The weakni the following (a). Insu nt efforts both ideological and organizational, to mobilize the Party member- ship with the result that not more than 50 per cent or 60 per cent actually participated in the preparatory wo: (b). Neglect of concentrated daily activity at specifie shops in basic industries in an ef- fort to organize May Committees and to realize t | strike, with the result that Committees were set up and no directly as a result of demot asse ne s of the Party were. chiefly (c). Inactive shop nuclei and in many cases open resistance to efforts to make them carry on preparatory work in the shops. (d). Lack of coordination of the various Party campaigns. Instead of the T.U.U.L. recruiting drive, the Daily Worker circula- tion campaign, and the preparations for the coming elections, ete., being used to stimulate the mobilization of the masses for May Day, and May Day in turn utilized to stimulate these campaigns, the carrying through of these cam- paigns “were postponed until after May First, because we were too busy.” (e). Stressing only agitational work (mass distribution of leaflets), while organizational work remained very weak, and the agitational and propaganda work, while increasing quan- titatively, did not improve qualitatively (weak- ness in linking up immediate and general de- mands, same stereotyped leaflets for Party and all auxiliaries, poor shop papers, etc.). (f). Slowness in starting preparatory work, and then a feverish, unorganized, last minute rush to try to do in the last week that which had been neglected, with very bad effects on the Party membership. (gz). Failure to reach out beyond those or- ganizations and groups already accepting the leadership of the Par nd especially failure to establish committees in the shops and to secure representation from these committees in setting up the united front conferences. In- sufficient utilization ef these conferences, and failure to draw the mass organizations into the preparatory work. (h). of our trade union fractions, both lly and locally, to draw the T.U. U, the utionary ‘unions, or local unions of the .L. into the preparatory work or into tions; failure to link up the TU. ing drive with the May Day n ations, with the result that the T.U.U.L. played but little part in mobilizing the masses and gained no organizational results from May Day. (i), Almost complete neglect .of detailed day to day work and.a continuation of the persistent tendency to substitute spectacular and superficial methods of work, All of these weaknesses: and tendencies which repeat themselves in one form or an- other in every Party campaign, must be seri- ously ned and overcome, 6. The Righi denver in py sto itself even more sharply during the period r, at 26-28 Onion “DAIWORK.” New York. N ¥ RESOLUTION ON MAY FIRST t were broader | ‘ Daily = Central Organ of the Communist Patiy ci the U.S. A. Worker By Mav SMASH THE WAR LORDS AND IMPERIALISM! | v Le bear ee Pts wee YePnIBS » By FRED ELLIS By FRED TOTHEROW. iB! Alabama, the tenant farmers and small landowners, are subject to the uttermost drudgery. The bankers have closed down on them. In the past the farmers could go to the banks and borrow dribbles of cash to make a crop:of cotton on but for this year it is dif- ferent. If the farmer asks for $300 the bank- er asks, “How much did you borrow last year.” If he got $300 last year the banker tells him he has to make out on $125 or at most $150. Imagine a family of six or more who must live on starvation food 12 months and then pay most of it out to the landlords just for a little shack to live in. And besides there are many who couldn't get that. There are some who could not even get the fertilizer to go under their cotton. In Alabama you must have fertilizer or you can’t grow cotton. What does that mean? Those that cah’t get fertilizer can’t farm. This forces them to go to the already overcrowded industrial centers. It means more than leaving the farm; it put: the 8,000,000 other workers who tramp the streets and highways day after day. Sleep Anywhere. Sleeping on the river banks, on the sides of dering why in the richest country in the whole world they should be kicked about worse thai? dogs. But some are beginning to wake up. I talked with many of the workers, in Alabama, in the two weeks that I was there. I gave them copies of the Daily Worker and they read them eagerly, and were very much surprised, they had never seen a paper like the Daily. All the papers they had ever read were the bosses’ papers, promising good times and pros- perity, and never telling of the millions and millions of workers out of jobs. But the Daily, the greatest and only Eng- lish Daily in America, fighting for the inter- est of the working class, explained to them them into the ranks of the unemployed, with | the railroads, starving and hoping, and won- | Dixie and the Daily Worker the speed-up, the stretch-out in the factories, in the mines, mills and every industry. And also the reason why the farmers can’t get the necessary cash, to make a crop on, All the bosses and the landlords want is their labor. By exploiting us they lay up more and more profits for themselves and family to have a swell time on. While there are around thirty million workers and their families on starva+ tion. The Daily Worker is the mouthpiece of our Party and the entire working class, and it must reach the masses of workers everywhere. In almost every city in the qouth the workers are asking for the daily, and we that have awakened and are beginning to understand the class struggle must get the Daily to the masses. How can we expect to get our rights if we don’t concentrate our every effort on building a powerful Daily in the South—in fact all over the United States. The reason I speak particularly of the South is that I am a southerner myself, who was a textile slave for years, ani was through the Gastonia struggle. And without the Daily we could never have edrried on the militant and revo- lutionary struggle, during the days of terror and mob violence that raged around Gastonia. Just a few Daily Workers are equal to a mass meeting in the South. Tam asking every comrade and class con- scious worker to heed the distressing ery of our working class paper. Can’t you under- stand that we must have funds in New York to be able to print it? Are you red blooded working men and women? Are you with your class? Then show your solidarity by sub- seribing and get your friends and fellow work- ers to subscribe to our fighting working class paper. Do you realize that we must never loose the Daily? We must support and build it to expose the bosses and their lackeys, thugs. lynching gangs and murderers. Rush contributions and subscriptions to the Daily Worker and show your solidarity to the work- ing class by putting the Daily on_its feet. s of May Day preparations. This is shown by the lack of emphasis placed on the organiza- tion of mass political strikes, by underestim- ating the readiness of the masses to respond to such strikes, failure to arrange factory meet- ings (Cleveland), open resistance of the shop nuclei to work in the shops (Chicago, Pitts- burgh, etc.), failure of fractions to raise the issue of May Day in the A. F. of L. locals, tendencies toward legalism, open refusal to ar- range street demonstrations (Schenectady, Niles, Sioux City, East Liverpool, Salt Lake City), tendencies to give up Union Square without a struggle, failure to hold meetings at factory gates ‘because police were present” (some sections in New York), ete. At the same time certain “left” tendencies manifested themselves (proposal to take Union Square from the fascists and police by force, similar proposals in Stamford, substitution of | boasting for work, ete.). On the basis of these manifestations of op- portunism in practice, it is necessary to under- take the sharpest struggle against the Right Danger which is the main danger for the Party, and also against all leftist tendencies which are a serious obstacle to the isolation and de- feat of Right elements and tendencies in the Party. 7. The success achieved gn May First af- fords the basis for further successful work by the Party. Our m@ss influence has been in- ereased and to extent consolidated. New experiences have been gained. Many new mem- nesses of the Party which have been empha- sized both in the preparatory work and in the demonstrations, must be seriously examined bers have heen won for the Party. The weak- | and overcome in the course of the carrying through of the present major ta: before the Party. In the pre-convention discussion now going on in the press, in the units and in the leading Party committees, the experiences of the Party in mass work—especially in the carrying through of the March 6 and May 1 demonstra- tions, must be thoroughly discussed and the Proper lessons drawn on how to overcome the disparity between our influence and organiza- tional strength. All Right tendencies must be exposed and fought. The various campaigns (election campaign, T.U.U.L, recruiting drive, unemployment con- ference, Daily Worker drive) must be coordin- ated and carried through with the greatest energy and persistence. In all of these cam- paigns the greatest attention must be given to the shops and factories, selecting important factories in basic industries and carrying on daily activity there, especially endeavoring to establish personal contact with the workers. Committees must be established among these workers—committees for the support of the Communist candidates, committees for the Daily Worker, T.U.U.L. shop committees, ete. Our task is' to drive the roots of the Party into the .hops; the various campaigns of the Party are the means by which this task will be real- ized. Greatest attention must be given by all District Bureaus to see that this dailv con- centrated shop activity is carried on. This is the way to build a solid foundation for the Party. In this way, the Party can become a mas; Party capable of leading the workers’ struveles, despite the attacks of the police, the offensive of the bosses and of their social fas- cist henchmen, tian and Bronx everywhere: One year $6; six months New York City, and fo SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ~~ 3; two months $1; n, Which are: One excepting Boroughs of ear $8; six months $4.50 Mistakes in the South By STEPHEN GRAHAM. of the new line which our Party, the guidance of the Communist Inte: national, is is now pursuing, we see that ther are still remnants of right and “left” de tions pursued by many of our comrades well as in districts of the Party. The growing army of unemployed, lowering the standard of living of workers and farmers, the ever increasing danger of an imperialist war, and foremost, the dangez of an attack upon the Soviet Union by the imperialist powers, confronts our Party with new tasks and greater responsibilities. Our task in the present period is to mob- ilize larger and larger sections of workers, both Negro and white; men, women, youth and working class children behind our Leninist banner—in short to win the majority of work- ers and to struggle against capitalist ratior alization, unemployment, fascism and_ social- fascism, and always having in mind our ob- jective, that is to turn the coming imperialist war into a’civil war of the exploited against the exploiter However, it is not my purpose here to deal with war danger, unemployment, ete. My pur- pose here is to mention and criticize the or- ganizational methods of some comrades in the South (which I am sure, the Party hopes, will no longer be pursued). For an example, we have a capable and res- ponsible comrade in Norfolk, Va., who was sent there as a colonizer by the National Organ- ization of the Young Communist League. We also have a Negro field organizer of the Amer- ican Negro Labor Congress who has been fol- lowing the same course. The first-mentioned comrade happens to be a machinist by trade, and it being that, we had’ quite a few connec- tions with Negro and white workers, and a skeleton organization in Norfolk, also a Na- tional Railroad Workers Industrial Union in Newport News, Va., with a dozen or so Negro member So this comrade said that he can’t work in the factory and carry on organization work at the same time. Further, this particular com- rade made a statement that if he can’t get a job at a union scale he will not work, | neither would he take any other job, Well, he is still without a job. Ceriainly, every comrade should know that our basic Communist organization work is conducted in factories, and it should be the y of every Communist organizer in the fac- s to try to get a job in any large factory (it matters not at what wages) and there or- ganize all the workers into our revolutionary unions and draw the best elements into the ranks of the Party. And anyone who believes that he can win the masses of workers over to our side by merely giving out leaflets once in a while, or perhaps satisfy himself by coming to a meeting and telling the workers how pow- erful we are when united, certainly cannot be | considered a true Bolshevik. It necessary to point out to these com- ades that harbor such illusions that such is an un-Communist and un-Leninist and un- Marxist attitude and such an attitude and prac- tice must be ruthlessly combatted by the entire Party membership. Further, there is another opportunist theory as was adopted by the District 16 Bureau of our Party. In that particular communication the comrades of the District Bureau, after viewing all attacks our Party has received of late (arrest of comrades in Atlanta, Ga., Chat- tanooga, Tenn., etc.), instead of coming out and calling upon the Party units to intensify their organizational campaigns against the southern ruling class, by holding mass protest meetings, street demonstrations, etc., called in- stead upon all the units (and many of the Party units were only recently organized and are still badly functioning), to hustle and build an underground apparatus. The result being that some of the weaker comrades became frightened and either dropped out of the Party entirely or else, were afraid to attend meetings for fear of being exposed and locked up. These few examples, I believe, show the Party why it is necessary to still further fight against all forms of opportunism. It therefore becomes necessary for us to in- our organizational activity—recruit new members for the Party, League and Young Pioneers and build the revolutionary trade unions under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League. Forward to a mass Communist Party, Young Communist League and Young Pioneers! The Fifth Congress of the R.ILLU. Chicago. On" April 29th, two meetings were held in Chicago for the purpose of nominating dele- gates to the Vth Congress of the R.ILLL.U. These meetings were open meetings at which all workers were invited, metal workers, build- ing workers, printers, barbers, the unorgan- ized, and also at these meetings was the “Red Squad,” which came to intimidate the work- ers, many. new workers coming to the meet- ings were questioned by the police before they entered, Because of the presence of the de- tectives and police, the nominations were not made in this open meeting, the workers fear- ing expulsion from jobs. The meetings were therefore confined mainly to discussion on the Vth Congress of the R.LL.U., and plans are being made to hold other meetings for the purpose of making direct nominations. Rockford, 11l_—Furniture. On May 2nd a general TUUL meeting was held at Rockford, for the nomination of dele- gates to the RILU. There were about 250 workers present. A furniture worker, 24 years of age, who has been working in the industry for 9 years, was nominated and received 61 votes. Another worker, a metal worker, 10 years in the metal industry, 32 years of age, was nominated and received 57 votes. A build- | ing trades worker, 34 years of age, active amongst Scandinavian workers, was nominated and received 55 votes. Rockford, next to Chicago, is one of the big- gest industrial centers in the state of Illinois, and next to Grand Rapids, Mich., is one of the biggest furniture centers in America. Seattle, Wash.—Lumber Center. At Seattle, Wash., meetings have been held, and 2 delegates nominated to the Vth Con- gress of the R.ILL.U. from the lumber indus- try. In connection with the drive for popular- izing the R.LL.U. Congress and carrying out the socialist competition two mill groups have been organized at Portland, and one group or- ganized at Bellingham. New Bedford---Textile. In the New Bedford distriet of the National Textile Workers’ Union, meetings ‘have been held in which 6 candidates have heen nomi- nated for the Vth Cong of Votes were made for these enand following order: 69, 49, 40, 29, comrades in th viet are plans and arranging for mill-gate me: and other meetings where the final elo will be made. 08s, the RILU. General T.U.U.L. Nomination Meetings, District, Poston At New Bedford meetings of T.U.U.L, groups have heen hel !, at which thera were 250 workers, and 7 candidates nominated for the Vth Congress. League also conducted a meeting and made a nomination for 1 candidate if this district. A group of 50 leather workers held a meet ing for the purpose of nominating delegates, a discussion was held on the Vth Congress, but no nominations were made, the comrades have not reported the cause for this, Building trades have held one mecting, but this meeting was poorly attended and arrange- ments have been made to prepare another meeting. Chicago—Railroad Workers League. The Railroad Workers League reports that 8 railroad workers have been nominated for candidates to the Vth Congress of the RILU including a Negro worker from the South. They report also an additional candidate nomi- nated at Cleveland, Ohio. For the present the The Marine Workers | names of these candidates are being withheld because of the general terror that exists in the industry and the chance of the candidates losing their jobs if identified, Detroit. Mass meetings have been held in Detroit, at which two candidates have been nominated. One a Negro worker and one a white worker, In the drive of socialist competition 25 colored workers have been recruited for the Tunnel Workers’ Group of the TUUL. Also the fol- lowing quotas for new members have been set: 1. Building and Construction, tunnel work—500. . Food workers—500, Furniture Workers—500, The Food Workers of the Detroit District have already made plans to hold their meet- ing for the nomination of delegates during the next week. including New York—Food Workers. The Food Workers Industrial Union of New York has held forty shop meetings of cafeteria workers for the purpose of nominating dele- gates to the R.LL. About 700 participated in these meetings. Nominations were voted upon in each shop. Discussions on the R.ILL.U. Congress were held. A goodly number of R.I. L.U. stamps were sold. The workers, at almost every meeting, participated in the discussion very enthusiastically. This union is making preparations to, broaden its campaign (being recently organized) extending it amongst the bakers, food clerks, and other sections of the industry, and other parts of the country, par- ticularly packing. The new membership drive of this union is being connected up with the election of delegates to the R.LL.U. The quota originally set of 1000 for this district has been raised to 3000. Since March 6 until May 6, over 300 new workers have joined the union. In preparation for May 1 the recent convention of the food workers made a special issue out of the election of delegates to the R.I.L.U. Congress, | ‘Mussolini Beats War Tom-Toms LEGHORN, Italy, May 18.—In a blustering speech here, Mussolini glorified the war preparations of Italian imperialism. The head fascist proclaimed the navy arms race insti- tuted by the Italian capitalists immediately | Upon the return of Grandi, Italian naval dele- the general | Rate, pm the London Naval Conference. ‘There something unescapable, inevitable, in this march toward destiny of fascist Italy, an, nobody can halt it!” thundered Mussolini. He touring Italy working up a war senti- ment, if | Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U.S. A, 43 East 125th Street, New York City. J, the undersitned, want to join the Commu- Send me more information. nist Party. Name . aeeeee Address oeee UtFrces Occupation . seccvececces AG@rcccce Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 Bast 125th St.. New York, N. ¥. eases Rese ene