The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1930, Page 3

. Ps FIRESTONE LAYS OFF | HALF OF FORCE AND SPEEDS UP THE REST | over, the influence and prestige gained during the stru quently not been crystalized organizationally due to our Wages Cut As Much As 30%; Young Workers) on sustained, systematic organizational work, (Southern Iilin Hired to Replace Adults re (Continued from Page Uney le has fre ailure tonia, ete.) The present drive of the T. U. U. L. for 50,000 new members is not receiving sufficient support from the Party. For the Party itself the same orgar tional weak parent. Despite the great mass struggles which we have led, we have not succeeded in greatly deepening the roots of our Party in the fac tories. In New York, where the mass influence of the Party is numer- ically at least, greatest, only 2 per cent of the members are organized in shop nuclei, and even these are mostly in light industr: Other dis tricts are almost as weak in the percentage of members organized in shop nuclei, Organization Into the Rubber Workers Indus- trial Union Only Hope for Real Fight (By a Worker Correspondent) AKRON, Ohio.—The conditions in the Firestone Plant No. 2 are getting worse from day to day, many of the workers are being laid off and the rest are being speeded up more and more. We had to work | By a le ; like hell before, but that was not enough for Mr. Firestone, he has | The pene atiye aS ey peeue ne harap ou ae efficiency experts time each operation and there is a wage cut and more | *hortcomings. The recruiting was done almost entirely at ma speed up te follow. In the past few months the wages have been cut | 785 and demonstrations; shop nuclei recruited practically no men as much as 30 per cent—even the slave-drivers received a wage cut of Applications were already reported to the center as n members by 20 per cent last week. {some districts (New York, Detroit) before the applicant was :ctuall 7 = | admitted to the Party. Applications were permitted to lie in the district aialt of the saree has facie er BH bet ne ae Laden dha | or section offices for weeks (New York) before efforts were made ti much as before. Each worker is forced to work on two mai nd | assign the applicant to a nucleus. But little efforts were made for this they receive from $4.40 to $5.50 per day on a piece work basis |come™the deadly routine of the nuclei, to draw the new members into whereas we used to make as much as $8 a day before “prosperity” hit | active work, or to draw them into classes where they could learn the us and aunts orks 28 her W phere mig hee woken ee pers 18 | aims and policies of the Party. All these weaknesses continued despite years are being fired and young workers hirec in their places, of course, ‘the constant warnings and directives of the Central Committee. As for lower wages. | result of these shortcomings of the membership drive an insufficient In the battery department we work for a week ana then we get a (number of the workers who answered our call to join the Party were “vacation” without fay for a week or more. In this department many 4 y {actually enrolled in its ranks. of the workers have lead poisoning and when the bosses find that out | applicants reported to the center, only approximately 900 were assigned those workers lose their jobs and new workers are hired in their places to nuclei, and of this number 18% were lost due to insufficient effort at 35 cents per hour. ‘to train and draw these new members into work. Detroit, Philadelphia Some of ihe workers are so disgusted that they are quitting their | and other districts show similar weaknesses in the recruiting and holding jobs but this doe: no good. What we need to do is to organize into | of new members. Unless the Party is jarred into a realization of the the Rubber Workers Industrial League and fight for better conditions | dangerousness of this situation with regard to the new members an even and higher wages. -—-A FIRESTONE SLAVE. | greater number will be lost. ional meet- All of these things—failure to organize the unemployed, slowness ae C, ’. in building the T.U.U.L., failure to build shop nuclei, and weaknesses obs da jin iz ’ E , Cops Couldn’t Scare Dakota Bloor Meet [it ine Situiting drive, show very clearly the great disparity: between (By a Worker Correspondent) the political influence of the Party and its ofganizational strength and tee s ¥ 7 activities. This disparity has already become dangerous. Each day it MINOT, N. D.—At the last mune noice; and they strongly sympa-| becomes more dangerous as the workers’ struggles become sharper and ute the I. O. O. F. hall, which had | thized with the speaker. | more frequent. If the masses who are compelled to resist the bosses’ veeen engaged for the occasion, was| 1" her speech Mother Bloor em-| offensive fail to get organized fighting expression through our Party vefused to a crowd of workers and|Phasized the significance of May) and the revolutionary trade unions, due to our inability to overcome our : z " Day for the workers and farmers, | organizational weaknesses in time or to delay on our part in stepping farmers for the holding of a May told about child and women labor | forward as the organizers and leaders of those mass struggles, in thi Day meeting here. The meeting in industry and on the farms and) period it is even possible that decisive struggles will be “led” and be- was held, however, in the open air, ‘capitalist oppression, and showed the| trayed by the social-fascists, or that workers, already disillusioned as lose to the hall, on the same side | fruits of Socialist Construction inj to the role of the social-fascists, will attempt to set up other or; of the street. the Soviet Union. | tions (as is already the case in Southern Illinois) for a time, independent About five policemen, including a} The day before the meeting the | of our Party and the revolutionary unions. motorcycle cop, had turned out “to/Minot Daily News carried a news 6 A An Uncritical Attitude. stop” this meeting. However, the |jitem to the effect that the meeting The most serious aspect of this dangerous lag in our work is the un- meeting proceeded without any fur-| would not take place. But it did} ther interference, workers and farm-| take place, nevertheless. Other| critical attitude to the shortcomings of the Party, adopted by many Party some district and section functionarie: ers present clearly showing their | meetings will be held here later. ; members, and especially by | | Instead of serious self-criticism, we see developing in some sections of disapproval of the actions of the| —MINOT WORKER. the Party an attitude of smug, bureaucratic self-satisfaction which leads a . . ! to concealing and covering up basic weaknesses, sending in false sob Sharks At It Again After “Investigation” | reports and unfounded boasting about the suce | ses already achieved. ; They fail to seriously examine the present status of the Party work from the viewpoint of the present objective situation, or from that of the needs of the masses, but only from the viewpoint of the only out- ward progress which has been made as compared with a year ago. | (By a Worker Correspondent) PAWLING, N. J.—Fake investigations may come, but invariably they go without results, unless it be the furthering of the political fortunes of some self-seeking official. Such was the fake investiga- tion of the employment office at 297 Bowery. After their enforced closure of a few days, the sharks at that address are again in full swing with a double stream of traffic in men—coming and going, to the Fred F. French Construction Co., near Pawling, N. J. The same old fee of $7 per man is charged and $3 collected for fare, although tickets to Pawling actually cost only $2.31. The employ- ment company also has contract for boarding the men, For lunch of dry white bread and boloney and supper of decayed beef $10.50 per week is deducted. Men are housed like pigs in an old barn where two cows died of exposure last winter. Not a man was discharged while the employment office was closed. But no sooner did the wires become hot with the news that the fake investigation was over and a new shipment of nine men en route, than the same old firing began anew. Many are fired the second or third day. Others are permitted to work seven days, in order that the sharks may have the aid of the state laws in mulcting the men of%he entire fee. (Six days entitles employee to refund of three-fifths.) Tired after their day’s work, men discharged at 5 p. m. face a five mile walk to Pawling with their suitcases the same night, unless they want to pay 50 cents in advance for the privilege of staying over night in the barn. Yours for a Soviet Union of the American States, that will clean up both the sharks and the fake investigation. —NEW RECRUIT TO COMMUNISM. The progress of the Party, however, cannot be measured by the mere | fact that May 1, 1930, was bigger than May 1, 1929. Nor can we measure the success of May 1 merely by comparing it with August 1 or March 6 | without taking into consideration the economic and political ‘situation. |The only correct measurement which can be utilized by a bolshevik Party is as to whether or not it was capable of fully exploiting a given | objective situation in the interests of the masses of workers. A tendency toward bureaucratic reliance on spontaneous mass ac- tion—a crass opportunist underestimation of the role of the Party as the organizer of the masses—has struck deep roots in the Party. The great mass response to the call of the Party and the T.U.U.L. on March 6 and May 1, instead of stimulating the efforts of the Party to organize |the workers, has caused many comrades to relax in his work. They ing or demonstration. The detailed day to day work which is required | to build shop nuclei and shop committees is in most cases neglected. |The need for Party organization within the factories and mines—for | powerful revolutionary trade unions, to lead the struggles of the workers | against wage cuts, rationalization, unemployment, and imperialist war, | has not struck sufficiently deep roots in our Party—the mood of the | masses for struggle does not reflect itself with its full force within our | Party. What is the Cause for this Situation? tions and practices still strongly prevalent in our Party and by ‘he bad jaocial composition and the preponderance of non-factory workers (major- . i ‘. # ity of highly paid skilled workers), which furnishes a fertile ground for Tipperary System, New Speed-Up in Steel Mills) 4% oh Ren a growth opportunism, both of which tend to isolate the Party from the masses and prevent the Party from reacting quickly to the moods of the masses for struggle, now rapidly increasing as a result of the economic crisis and the bourgeois offensive. Opportunism, principally from the Right, manifests itself in an underestimation of the depth and long duration of the economic crisis, in an underestimation of the willingness of the masses to fight, in a re- | sistance to and neglect of shop work, in a failure to take up energetic- ally the building of the T.U.U.L. and the revolutionary unions, in a re- sistance to assuming independent leadership of the developing mass | struggles, failure to take up and organize the daily struggle of the workers against Rationalization, wage cuts, and unemployment; resist- ance to broadening out the workers’ struggles and linking up the Party’s political demands with the economic demands, in the carrying over the (By a Worker Correspondent) EAST CHICAGO, Ind.—Soft roll in the sheet mills are used for production is doubled, while wages | are slashed. This speed-up sys- better grade of iron, also for | tem is the result of capitalist com- safety of finishing mill. But to- | petition at home and abroad for day the steel companies are doing , market. The Tipperary system is away with the soft mill business | putting me and other steel work- and begin to change their mills on | ers in the breadlines, because the the so-called Tipperary system | steel companies will be able to fill (the triple mill). their orders in no time. Two steel companies in this sec- Down with the Tipperary sys- tion have the triple system in | tem and any other kind of speed- their mills, the Inland at Indian | up. Let us answer the boss by Harbor and the Canton Rolling | organizing in the big Metal Work- ers’ League. —STEEL WORKER. BAYLO BECK—WRITE TO BOX 75 DAILY WORKER | Mill. Under the Tipperary system | Jobless in Baltimore Reach New Height (Continued from Page One) cynically admitting that the charge of suppressing figures that would have made “Pollyanna” Hoover look like a stuffed monkey, was true. Figures released now will be those of the date of the census, and will not take into account the great in- crease since then. A few cities is- sued figures before the gag order came from Washington, and these Es if the proportions continued SIX FACING DEATH Rememb6r the Murder of Sacco and Vanzetti! A new death penalty trial is now in preparation in Atlanta! Two Negro and Four White Workers Are Involved! JOE CARR, One of the Prisoners, Is Already in the Death House! Workers Arouse ! The bosses mean to electrocute these workers in an attempt to stamp out workingclass organization! Get into the fight now! No more victims for capitalist vengeance! Save these workers for the class struggle! ORGANIZE MASS MEETINGS! SEND PROTEST RESOLUTIONS! Tens of thousands of dollars are needed for their defense! Send Your Donation! INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 799 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Dear Comrades: Please find enclosed $........for the defense of the Atlanta prisoners. ‘rue for the whole country, about 000,000 unemployed at that time. * * * Wage Cuts in Fisher Body CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 27.—) Practically every department of the Fisher Body plant in Cleveland has reétived wage cuts in the last two months, ranging from 5 to 40 per cent, while most of the departments are working with half the number of men who were operating last year. In many of the departments work- ers have to wait several hours for stock without getting paid for the hours they wait. Butchers’ Jobs Menaced Retail butchers’ jobs are on the way to the limbo of forgotten pro- fessions, if the Hygrade Food Prod- ucts Co. is successful in its efforts to have $15 a week counter girls sell packaged meat. The meat is cut and packaged in the wholesale centers under mass production. KOTLER — MO MUSIC — DAN DIRECTION: BY Hudson Day Line to New Name wisincesccccscensececoessssrecsessesssovscedocevercceces DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1930 -Convention In the New York district, out of 1,400 | | are still entirely satisfied if the Party organizes a successful mass meet- | This situation is caused primarily by very deep opportunist concep- | Open For Decoration Day ! NITCEDAIGET Hotel with modern improvements in every room. Bungal- ows with electric lights; tents, showers, swimming pool. WOODLAND — BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN SCENERY CAMP FIRE — REVOLUTIONARY MASS SONGS DIRECTED BY COMRADE SHAEFER — PROLETARIAN PANTOMIME — SOVIET MOVIES — LIGHTNIN KLEIN — UNIQUE ED Prices for Three Days—$9.00. New York Grand Central to Beacon every hour. CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, NEW YORK es and methods into cadres. of new t tendenc in street b: nifestations of ft déeply s therefore d and more he main danger; opportunism in all prevent the Pa from mobilizing and trug gles. se opportunist con h the composition of our memb« to us f socialist, trade union and s with them many reform i portion of our membs ered in workers’ clubs, mmunists, follow a policy s struggle. Wo ein the Party. Th theoretical training cause veness to the present mood of a result of these factor hich hinders the growth fluence, linked rom licalist organ ethods of work, rm, whose 1 hick ny case in sl ns 2 ma re is an ine the Party » opporty and of its orgar What Is to be Done? 2 Par —it is necessary in the Wh tende To overcome these w nesses of the lagging behind tendencies sharpest struggle against op cognition of the dans there has been a relaxation in the struggle aga districts. While waging a much sharper struggle a {tions of opportunism in y it is especially !against those who still quite openly defend the rades in the needle anc joe unions, in Pittsburgh, C the pre-convention discussion, as well as in the general work Party, all of the concrete manifestations of opportunism must be discussed and accompanied by organizational measures against com- rades who persistently resist correction or persist in an opportunist line. Together with this intensified struggle against opportunist ten- dencies must go a sharp turn toward mass work. The shop activity of the Party must be increased, especially with the view of recruiting new | rst place to wage the re is a general re- in all resclutions, st it in a number of gainst all manifesta nec sm of opportunist workers and of actually setting up shop or ation (nuclei and shop committees) in the ic industries (steel, coal, chemical, ete.) These increased shop activities in the ic industries will change the compo- ition of the Party and make the Party much more responsive to the ng mood of the masses for strugg’ | ing of | ggles © All Party members must be brought into the T.U.U.L.; ‘the Patty fractions must be set up and activized as the real leading force in the revolutionary unions and industrial groups. Through the Party fractions the Party leadershp must see that the recruitng drive of the T.U.U.L. and the organization of the unemployed on the basis of industrial unemployed councils are carried through. The organization of the unemployed and the recruiting drive of the T.U.U.L. must receive the chief attention of the Party. Great attention must be given to the drawing in and developing of new cadres. A systemati npaign must be undertaken in the nuclei to choose, promote and train new cadres for leading work in the Party and revolutionary trade unions. lly must the Party devote more attention to the build and to establishing its leading role in the strike st More attention must be given to recruiting new members in con- nection with the various campaigns and especially must more attention be given to drawing them into Party work and to training them to an understanding of the program, strategy and tactics of the Party. At the same time the work of the nuclei must be thoroughly examined with a view to overcoming the present bad practices which cause new members to leave the Party. | These problems—the struggle against the right danger, the turn towards mass work, the recruiting of new members from the basic in- dustries, the building of the T.U.U.L., the organization of the unem- ployed, the keeping of new members, the training of new cadres, the activization and the breaking of the opportunist passivity of the Party must receive thorough considerations as the most outstanding issues be- fore the Party. In the pre-convention discussion, as well as in the daily work of the Party, we must concentrate on those phases of our work. The fact that the renegades from Communism, the Lovestonites and Trotzkyites, will fulfill their counter-revolutionary role by trying to make al out of our open examination of our weaknesses, st deter us from the fullest and frankest self-criticism. 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