The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1930, Page 3

i | | | 4 oAILY wORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1930 _ Workers’ Defense Corps By WILLIAM ALBERTSON 'HE manner in which the workers for the last year have been withstanding the attacks of the police and the fascist extra-legal forces of the capitalist state brings before the Party a-problem about which there has been plenty of talk with very little deeds. The Gastonia strike, New Orleans, Marion, Southern Illinois, and many of the smaller struggles which have taken place within the last year; the prepar- atory demonstrations before March 6, March 6 itself, then May ist, in many districts, have been high points of militancy and actual street fighting which the Party has not given or- ganizational form. The workers, by means of these many important class battles, have shown both to the capitalist class and the Party that they are willing to struggle, and what is more, that they are determined to defend themselves against the onslaughts of the bosses’ legal and extra-legal forces. The Party agitates for “Workers’ Defense Corps” and organizes but little. The fact that our Party has not utilized these battles as high points around which to organize the defense corps, shows that even today, regardless of our resolutions, the radical- ization and militancy of the working class is still underestimated. It is true that plans in some of the districts for the organization of Workers’ Defense Corps were worked out, but these plans have remained either on paper or were made the essence of agitation speeches for our Party members and the workers at district membership and mass meetings. As a result, today, one year after the workers in | | Gastonia defended themselves with arms, no- | where in the United States do we have an or- ganized defense corps, not even the necessary organizational forms have been laid for the building of this important mass organization. | This has been due to many reasons. What Defense Corps Are Not. Our underestimation of the desire of the | workers to defend themselves in struggle which is part end parcel of the underestimation cf the radicalization of the workers, this has been one of the chief reasons for the fact that io we haye no defense corps. Another import factor is the lack of directives from the Cen- tral Committee which resulted in misconcer tions as to how the crops should be organizcd, where should be its basis of organiz whether or not it was a military organ what should the daily activities of the members be, etc., ete. Some of the comrs in New York stated that “We lave the Lalor Sports Union, why orgenize a separate org ization?” Other comrades expressed then:- selves thus, “At last we are building the Anxi ican Red Front,” and some even went as fay as the Red Army. Because of the fact that « worker had effectively used jui-juitsu in th: New York Haitian demonstration before City Hall, certain comrades felt that that was all that was necessary for the defense corps to know. These and more problems and mis- conceptions faced the Party members and the non-Party workers who joined the New Yorl: corps, and the leaders of the defense corps had a tough time to explain the probiems and to eradicate these and other misconceptions. The Party should utilize the month of Junc, the first anniversary of the defense of the W.I.R. Gastonia tent colony by the str Southern‘ textile workers, for a real beginnir; in laying the necessary organizational basis {c: the building of this most important mass o ganization. The Central Organization Depavi ment must take the time to work out the dire: tives on how to organize Workers’ Defe: Corps, and an organized discussion on w are Workers’ Defense Corps. If this is ne done immediately, we will fall into the sam danger that We did before; that is, befor March 6 we were building them for the ( after the 6 we rested a while and then bega: building them for May 1, and after the 1 w: are still resting. Unless the work is started immediately, we will soon find ourselves build- ing them for Anti-War Day on August 1 with ation, no perspective for a permanent mass organ- ization. The Workers’ Defense Corps organization is a mass Party “auxiliary” with functioning Communist fractions therein. It has. as its main function at the present time the defending | of the workers in their class battles against the legal and extra-legal forces of capitalism on the picket lines, at demonstrations, etc. It is not a Red Front Fighters, organization, neither is it the Labor Sports Union. It is composed of all those workers who wish to join it because they realize that they must defend themselves against the capitalist onslaughts, and that the best defense is an organized de- fense. The basis for the organization of the corps must be in the mills, mines, shops and factories. It is based also in the new unions of the T.U.U.L., T.U.U.L. minorities in A. I’ of L. locals, and T.U.U.L. shop committees Wherever there is a shop nucleus of the Par or League, there must be built the Workers’ Defense Corps. Wherever there is a local of a@ union affiliated with the T.U.U.L., must be built the corps. Wherever there is a T.U.U.L. minority within an A. F. of L. union, or a shop committee of the T.U.U.L., there the corps must be built. It is absolutely incorrect to build defense corps within branches of fraternal organizations, sick and death bene- fit societies, language organizations, workers clubs, etce., because the members of these or- ganizations are practically all workers in shops and should be drawn into their shop or unicn corps; also because the more we base all cur activity on the shops and unions, the more will our Party and its organizations sink their roots into the most important sections of the working class. The Labor Sports Union, also, should not have these corps within its affiliated clubs for the same reasons, and because the members of the L.S.U., having had some pr-- liminary physical training should belong te their shop or union groups in order to giva them a better physical backbone. The fraterne! ozganizations and clubs, L.S.U., ete., must be used as agitation centers for the building of the Workers’ Defense Corps, as centers for ‘urcing their respective memberships to join the W.D.C. of their respective shop, local, etc. After a minimum number of groups have heen established, delegated city conferenc:s stould be called for the organization of ciiy w organizations with secretaries i leaders corps and clas s (at present utilizing L.S.U. und all other necessary committees for the Mrilding of the apparatus. At the proper time. a national conference for the organization of a national apparatus should be called. Basis of Organization. The*groups should be organized on the fol- lowing basis: The basic unit shall be coi:- posed of eight workers knc defense group. To these eig be attached a leader. The e i be one of the eight. Four groups of eight plus the four leaders of the individual groups oS compose the workers’ defense corps. To the corps shall be attached a leader and the ar sistant leader shall be one of the four lead-:s of the various groups. Each group of ei/ i shall be divided into two squads of four witii one of the four as squad leader. The s@u:! all be further divided into buddies, that vo comrades who will always work togeth: The whole organization should be due: and should be based on the principle: ‘cmocratie centralism. The corps shall me egularly at specified times; the groups sha cot meet without the whole corps except whe seasion arises. The full time of the meetin: hall be divided between political discussion nd training in defensive and fighting tacti The workers are ripe for organization int the Workers’ Defense Corps. The Party mu: segin immediately to follow up its agitation: work with real organizational work in the build ¢ of the Workers’ Def Corps into a broac s working class organ The South Needs More Forces By J. C. MARTIN We approach historic June the Seventh, when the workers of the South bravely held their own against an organized gang of drunk- en thugs, under the leadership of Chief Ader- holt of Gastonia, North Carolina, who was in charge of the gang and who led them to the workers tent colony to “clean up cn them Reds.” These Southern workers who for many years suffered untold exploitation and misery in the textile, tobacco, and other mills, working for as low as six dollars per week, eleven and ieetve hours per day; these workers knew very well the mission of the chief and his gang. ‘And they were not taking any chances. They knew well that the bosses were looking for a chance to divide their ranks, and to smash their union, and that the bosses would use all means for it. The workers were prepared when the outfit descended upon the colony. For days and nights the textile strikers stood on guard at the tent colonies, seeing. to it that no harm came to their children and families. When the night of the Seventh came, the battle took place. The fight was a long and bitter one. The workers of the South proved to the rest of. the working class that they were ready to fight back, and that they were not the docile slaves any more. Not only that, but that shey are and will be ready again when the time comes, to fight for their rights. Ready for Organization The workers of the South are ready for or- ization. The workers throughout the South are preparing to celebrate the first anniver- wary of the Seventh of June. Thousazds of textile, tobacco, cotton and other workers will tarn out to the huge mass meetings that are being arranged by the International Labor De- fense, and TUUL. Not only will these be cel- ebrations, but the workers will draw their lessons from this historic day, and will or- ganize themsel for further struggles against their bosses, Due to the terrible exploitation of the work- ers in all fields of work, cutting of their wages (a man told us a day ago, that he made this week, after putting in a hard week’s work in the Reynolds tobacco mill in this city, $13.56, and he has a family of six children,. wife and himself to support), the long hours that they are forced to slave, makes the workers discon- tented, rebellious, and ready for organization. / The chances of building our Party, and {) Trade Union Unity League as well as oth« mass organizations, are good. But, in order to do this, the Party will have to send in « good group of comrades, with instructions, that they must stay on the job, and not decide to leave when they feel like it, as has been in the past, nor should the Party withdraw forces from the field, as has also been done in the past. This has a bad effect on the work that has begun. Withdrawing Forces. In the past we had a lot of forces here, but what happened? Most of them were taken out and placed in charge of other work. No new ones sent in, the result was that it had a very damaging effect on the work. Many new contacts were in this way lost. The Party must be more rigid in this con- nection, must be assigned for work, given specific in- structions to carry it out; regular reports to be sent in to the center, etc. No comrade to leave his or her post until permission is granted from the center. In connection with the many mass organ- izations, like the T.U.U.L., LL.D., W.LR., ete., _ many times we find that a comrade in charge of one department, is forced to also become the T.U.U.L., I.L.D., ete., organizer. This is bad and should be avoided. It is not possible for one person to do work for several organ- izations, the result is that none of the work is properly attended to, and only confusion is the result. These various mass organizations must pro- vide their own organizers to cerry on the work of that particular department, and not de- .pend on some outsider to do the work for them (while I agree that cooperation should be given by all comrades to the various mass organizations), only by systematically carry- ing on the work will we be able to build a well functioning movement in this section of the country. With more forces to be sent in, and this should be done very soon, we will be able to build a powerful Communist Party of Negro and white workers in the South. Demand the release of Foa- ter, Minor, Amter and Raye mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. BUILDING THE T.U.U.L. AND! THE PARTY CONVENTION By L. BRAVERMAN, Secretary of the Building Trades Fraction E of the chief tasks confronting the Party in the present time, is building the T.U.U.L. and orientating the Party membership towards building the T.U.U.L. The present crisis that is raging thru the United States in every basi industry of the country is placing a very favor- ably situation before the Party and the T.U. J.L. where it is possible not only to reach the 50,000 membership quota set for itself by the T.U.U.L. but to double this quota if we put every .ounce of energy of the Party in this | campaign. there | A responsible group of comrades | That=‘the. masses. of the workers are ready to Tolldw: us in every one of our campaigns was very well exemplified ‘during the March 6 De- monstration .and- May Ist. These demonstra- tions--have proved -to us definitely that ‘the workers are not only ready to follow the Party and T.U.U.L. on slogans of immediate demands but for the political slogans of the Party (such as Defend the U.S.S.R.), against rationalization and for the overthrow of capitalism, These mass dénionstiation have proven to us con- clusivel¥, that the influence of the Party growing beyond expectations and that if it is possible to rally these workers around our slogans there remains’ no reason why these workers cannot. be brought into o&r movement. Unfortunately as it is, we are realizing v small results out of these mass movement Only a small number of these workers have actually become a part of our movement. This fs a basic organizational shortcoming and it Must be analyzed thoroughly during this con- vention and immediate steps must be taken to Hiquidate this so that it is not repeated. The Thesis of the Central Committee in the resolution on building the T.U.U.L. points out very definitely the role that the Communists must play in building the revolutionary unions. The Party membership must be mobilized not nly to be members of these organizations but they must be in the forefront of every struggle conducted by these organizations for the pur- pose of giving guidance and leadership to their struggles. As the matter stands now we have very few comrades who can give leadership to these struggles. Very few cadres of experienced comrades have been developed during this period and this in itself is a good reason why we do not realize enough organizational results fom the struggles conducted under the leader- ship of the T.U.U.L. and the Party. This coming convention must register these short- comings. They must be placed on the forefront of every party meeting. Sufficient enlighten- ment must be carried on for the purpose of bringing home to every member of the Party the importance of trade union work. In building the T.U.U.L. another important phase of our work must be discussed, and that is building and reorganizing the existing trade union fraction. There are various opinions ong Party members as to the role of Party ctions in the revolutionary unions. Some of ihese opinions express themselves namely that ce these are revolutionary unions there is no need of having any fractions at all. Others put forth the idea that only communists must he placed in the leading cadres of the unions. Poth of these opinions do no good to the move- ment. Both of them would lead to an ever greater confusion .and disorganization in our ranks. They must be fought bitterly in the forthcoming Party convention, Building the T.U.U.L. in the A. F. of L. Unions. Alongside of organization of the unorgan- ined, the question of building the T.U.U.L. in the A. F. of L. unions is of great importance. While it is true that the T.U.U.L. is primarily based on the thousands of unskilled workers whom the A. F. of L. has never made an at- tempt to organize, we must not overlook the t that there are still tens of thousands of ers in the A. F. of L. whom we have to ch, and where a systematic program of ac- tivity must be pursued. There is a tendency on the part of a number of our comrades to make elliances with various groups of so-called pro- svessive elements during varicus campaigns (such as elections, amendments to the local con- stitutions, ete., while this policy might have been good during the boring within period, it is no longer the policy of the T.U.U.L. We must come out definitely on a T.U.U.L. pro- m and lead the struggles within these unions pendently, not for the purpose of reform- ing the A, F. of L. but for the purpose of <posing the fascist leadership of the A. F. of L, and its em of organization and win- ning the majority of the workers over to the .U.U.L. by smashing the A. F. of L. organ- izations. There is no more room for us to combine with all kinds of elements who make use of the in- fluence of the left wing elements for fighting one clicue for the purpose of putting in an- other. The workers are ready to follow us and we must be prepared to give them leadership. The slogan of the Party must be: every member of the Party a member of the T.U.U.L. This is the only way we can be sure that the Party membership is in the lead of the cam- paign. ‘This is the only way that we will be assured that our propaganda will not only bring workers to our demonstrations, but that these workers will become a part of our movement. This is: one of the ways where we will not only reach the quota assigned to us, but double the amount. The T.U.U.L. is the recruiting ground for the Party. The Party cannot be- come a mass Party unless there are revolu- tionary unions to defend the Party and from where we can draw the workers to our move- racnt. Forward towards a mass Communist Party. Forward towards mass revolutionary unions. The Daily Werker is the Party’s best instrument to make contacts amon: che masses of workers, to build a inass Communis: Party. Demonstration in Indo China According to a report from Indo-China 2.000 workers with red flags demonstrated in | Tan-Duong in Cochin-China before a house in whieh the French governor of the province of Sadee was staying on a tour of inspection. Hurriedly summoned troops and police dis- persed the demonstration with great brutality. This sudden and unexpected ‘demonstration took the French authorities by surprise and | shows that the desperate repressive measures adopted by French imperialism have failed to crush ihe national-revolutionary. movement in Indo-Chis« India cei’ Toilers Party Nos. 1-18. | Jan. 26-April 30, 1930. A PEW days ago, Raymond Dun i#* can, well-known stie freak, clad in a flowing Greek gown | (home-spun for all we know to the | contrary), paraded down to the Bat- |tery under the official protection of ja couple of cops, solemly dipped up a dozen canfuls of sea-water. | thanked the cops, and announced to the wondering longshoremen and un- employed that he was going home |'to put on his kettle and make sait ‘for Gandhi. In no other way could this freak (despite his intentions to the contrary) have demonstrated |more sharply the farcical nature of |Gandhi’s whole salt-shaker cam- jpaign, The farce of passive resis- |tance, of opposition to the salt tax, ‘while leaving untouched the land ‘tax, the rent laws, the forest laws; |the farce that is intended to have a happy ending for British imperial- ism with a-grand chorus of Mac- Donald, Gandhi and all the other traitors singing the praise of His the lives of thousands of Indian workers and peasants, shot down in |the revolutionary struggle or dying jof poverty under the heel of British rule. The exposure and defeat of the treacherous clown, Gandhi, and his |kindred traitors and reformists, the ‘winning of the masses of Indian jworkers and peasants to the ban- ne> of the “Revolutionary Marxian Workers’ Party,” the overcoming of religious, caste, and national preju- dice, the broadening and intensi: ing of the struggle on every front- | these are the tasks which the Work jers’ Weekly, “organ of the militant working class,” has set itself. But the most pressing of all needs is the establishment of a revolution- ary Marxian Workers’ Party. In article after article, the Workers’ Weekly stresses the importance of this task, explains the role of the Party, explains how it must be or- ganized, how it is to work under the \conditions of illegality. “The crea- |tion of such a party is the greatest historical task at this moment... . This is our main, tas: What are the perspectives of the Indian Revolution? In an article Majesty—this farce is daily costing | Page Three = JUNE 7th, ANNIVERSARY Boxing Dope; Helps Forge OF GASTONIA BATTLE | By S. G. 1 | June 7th is a day to be cherished) and commemorated by the Ameri- can workers. It is the day of the historic battle at the Gastonia tent colony. It is the day when the workers of the South, native-born Anglo-Saxon stock, showed the workers of the rest of the world, that they would fight—with arms in| their hands if need be—against their | masters. | Being a great day for the work-| ers it, of course, is a great day for) worker sportsmen and sportswomen. But their is a special reason why! the Labor Sports Union should re- member that day, and on every June 7th pledge themselves to greater |struggles in behalf of the class. And it is this story, known to but a very few of our comrades, that we now relate: In the course of a strike the young workers showed themselves to be most active, most militant, most daring, those who gave cour- age and life when older spirits drooped. Like most young workers, they showed a desire for sports. The Youth Section of the Loray local formed a sport club that affiliated with the Labor Sports Union. A |secretary was elected, and sports| |work became a regular part of the | | work of the young strikers. The L. S. U. members were among the most |reliable and courageous workers, |veady to give life itself, if neces- sary, before they would permit their standard of life to be beaten down | any further. Many of them, expert in the use of rifles and shotguns, a skill remembered from their Ten- |messee and Western North Carolina mountaineer days, were among the jarmed guards that stood every |night before the headquarters and jaround the little woods that en- folded the tent colony. They stood there, night after night, grimly de- termined that if another masked mob of thugs was to come to destroy their new headquarters, built by |the strikers themselves, or attack | the men, women and children in the | tent colony, it would be only after jthey —the guards—had already breathed their last. Thus it stood the night of June 7th, when the gang of drunken |bor Sports their search-warrant. They “didn’t need any goddamned sgarch-wary rant”’—so the thugs swore. were going to “clean up every god,, damned red”—every union’ membgy A tussle started between the first guard and one of the thugs. A command from the guards—“Ley go ot that man!” A curse and a police bullet was the answer. The battle started. Shotgun shells blazed forth; police revolvers barked in short staccato fashion. Suddenly a youth of about seventeen rushed into the union headquarters in his shirt. “Quick, gimme a dark coat. The; can see me too easy in this white shirt.” One of the girls inside flung him a dark coat through which he quickly stuck his arms. He grabbed up his shotgun and ran outside, kneeling as soon as he got outside, to send another charge of lead at the thugs. That young worker, whom we shall not name for obvious reasons, was the Gastonia secretary of the Labor Sports Union. * * * This is not an accident, not a chance occurrence. It was the log-! ical thing. The young workers who were most militant, physically most active, the best defenders of the workers, were members of the La- Union. almost instinctive, way these young workers pointed out the future for| the Labor Sports Union, And this—if we may paraphrase the imperialist story-teller, Kipling, is the moral of our tale. That this young L. S. U. secretary is a symbol that many of our L. S. U. members would do well to ponder over. | It’ is not only a remarkable ex- ample of working class courage, but it is a splendid example of something even deeper than individ- ual bravery—class devotion. June 7th and the action of our L. S, U. members in Gastonia have a profound meaning for the L. S. U. It |shows, in miniature perfection, the historical tasks of the Labor Sports Union—to organize masses of work- er sportsmen, especially unskilled native workers in the decisive in-| dustries, thus aiding the militant unions, and taking a leading role Phey| In their own, | sidered thugs descended on the tent colony. |in the struggle against fascism, in exposing the “left” socialist program | vof the reformist, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Workers’ Weekly sums them up | as follows: “The objective task of the rapidly approaching revolution in | India is the abolition of the feudal) imperialist land system... the, labolition of British imperialist con- ‘trol of the commanding heights in| |Indian economy . . . a radical change in the conditions of the working class (7-hour day, minimum wage. 3 | social insurance, full freedom to or- A King— |ganize, strike and picket, workers’ Anyhow, svcertain Mr. Corel\ac- control of employment and dis-|_ ~ . A charge ... against rationalization, | Mured fame by be a Hoover determination up to separation, iadene or Now evar) checvacct i ‘itis ley agers : overthrow of British rule, over. | day ihe cgaveuhie tHiover ares throw of the rule of the princes) . : an¢ landed aristocracy in the native | °" unemployment. He gave ae e states, establishment of full and un-|@ll right, but what figures?” conditional independence of India. | “normal unemployment” he said is “In this sense, the coming revolu- | 200,000 in New York City and now tion is a national democratic revolu-| ‘here are “only” 300,000. Making tion. The leader of this revolution | himself a liar by over 700,000. Al is destined to be the working class | cat may look at a king, indeed, but of India in alliance with the pea-| he remains a cat. jsantry and supported by the revo-| 4 lutionary petty-bourgeoisie of the| “A Gent of Purest cities. . . . Hence the political ob-! Ray Serene?— jective becomes the establishment of | "> 5 The scores of thousands who the revolutionary democratic dic- poured into Union Square at the tatorship of the workers and pea- sants of India... . (This) must be | call of the Communists on May Day viewed as a stepping-stone to the didn’t know it, but right under their proletarian social revolution and the noses the S. L. P. had a revolution establishment of the dictatorship of all of their own. the proletariat.” Every page of the Worke gives evidence of the m political awakening which i once described as one of the pre-|0 more of the working class requisites of all revolutions. Under|@ Pig knows of astronomy. In a the conditions of semi-legality, the|Tecent issue of its paper it proudly jrestrictions of which are evident in| States that while the Communists— levery article, this little sixteen-|but let them tell it: 2 | page paper has to reach out to thou- ‘With the Communist trying their sands and thousands of Indian| best to celebrate what should be a iworkers and peasants in simple meaniagful, purposeful occasion in | language the Leninist line /a manner best described as a cross The guards challenged them to show even the “legal” right to enter, A Cat Can Look at ithe defense corps of the American working class. RED SPARKS By JORGE as a humorist, but unconsciously he sot off a good one, which the “New Leader” so thoroughly approved of that it printed it in bold face type. | “The robust optimism,” said Van- dervelde, “which is one of the pos- tulates of our social faith, is re- Labor Sports News Notes Professional Boxing. ling and place at the Thursday, tcome will be his time, but the outlook is th: ey will come out the winner. Why? Well, the writer can give the following rea- sons that will bear out his predic- tions unless the unexpected hap- pens: Sharkey is just as hard a hitter s Schmeling and just as good a Stadium 2. What June 12 is hard to tell taker. In boxing skill Sharkey is much superior. And another im- portant point to be considered is that Sharkey has been fighting right along, while Schmeling has been doing his boxing in the gyms for the last year. These are the reasons from the angle of cold facts in the game of scrambling ears. There is another reason that must be considered and that is the question of nationalism. The American bourgeoisie are deter- mined keep the heavyweight title here in spite of desires of some of the promoters to place the crown on the brow of a foreign boxer |just to stir up more interest in the racket. Another point to be cons, is the question of bets. Be- ~ fore placing their bets they usually take the necessary precautions to |see that their man wins. Now, fig- ure for yourself who the winner of this bout will be? | Tennis. A good® example of capitalist amateur sports is Bill Tilden, the \outstanding “star” among the Amer- jican tennis players. He has been playing “amateur” tennis for nearly twenty years, touring the various jcountries of the world the year round. Has no occupation nor an quired in order to envisage with thegoutside income sufficient to afford gravest apprehension, the political and social situation of the moment in Europe and the world.” Which is| Vandey’s way of saying that only a “socialist” can look ypon the pres- [ent world crisis of capitalism and still have hopes for the survival of | capitalism. Not A Bad Idea— An hombre named Malcolm Lo- for June, has settled on the bright idea that the way to prevent the “Reds” from raising a big row over low wages is for the bosses to pay better wages. That’s simple, isn’t |it? But the devil of it is to con day, and—“I estimate the cast at about $52.50.” *Aint Nature Wonderful! mond Duncan marched coyly in his | Roman toga, Greek peplum, or just gan, writing in Scribner’s Magazine | Straight from fairy-land, Ray-| him a living. At present he is pl in: in Germany. The question is he really playing amateur tennis’ Draw your own conclusions. Labor Sports Union News. This Saturday’s athletic meet of the Eastern District will be a hume dinger. To date there are over 125 entries in and the next few days ex- |pect to bring in another hundred or |so. From New England states alone entries have been received, con- isting of the pick of the athletes rom this district. Philadelphia is lexpected to be represented by ten |men. Outside of the colorful program |which is presented for the masves S. L. P. means! vince the bosses. We're already con-|of workers there are two more added jocialist Labor Party,” but it is|vinced, Logan pokes fun at Mattie | attractions. neither socialist nor labor nor a, Woll’s notion that it took $1,250,-/marks the first anniversary of the party, but a religious sect with! 000 of “Soviet Gold” to “foment” |capitalist fascist raids upon the W. Lenin | liberal-radical patter which knows| the March 6 demonstrations. Logan|I. R. tent colony in Gastonia. The than! says he was on Union Square that) L. S. U. has agreed with the I. L. D. This day, June 7, |to use this athletic meet as a pro- |test against the terror in the South jagainst the attempted legal murder lof six of the union organizers of \the T, U. U. L. and the Communist |Party in the South. | Every worker must come to this affair and voice his protest against on) every phase of the struggle, ex- jplaining the lessons of former revo- lutions, mobilizing support for the great strikes, rallving the workers to the R. I, L. U., and tirelessly exposing the treacheries of the re- formists—the Gandhis, _ Nehrus, Boses, ete. The Workers’ Weekly a powerful instrument of the revolu- tion. “The crisis has deepened (April (28) to the point of open street fight- ji . against the agents of im- verialism in several cities. . .. In Caleutta we had the beginning of ibarricade fighting, a means of cities have always resorted in tin of revolutionary uprising. The fevents point to the coming great | battle. The General Strike is com- ing nearer. . . . The masses are netting ready for the Genersi Strike. It is now necessary to set with the bulding up of the ran and file General Strike Committees toll over the country... . Forward ‘with revolutionary mass action!” : —E. G. | Great Extension of ‘Sowed Area in U.S.S.R Caritalist press renorts that in the | Ukraine, the most important grain i region in the Soviet Union, there has already been planted more acreavo .than in 1929. The cotton area al- veady sown also has a good veedrd, onproximately 50 per cent ab that of 1920. The sown area i: beets is about 30 per cent higher and corn 5 per cent higher than 1929, 4 The increase in the tariff on such | Argentine, * nels 4 | between a bacchanalian revel and an | anarchist frenzy, it must have been |a joy to those comrades and sympa- ;thizers present to participate in the} plain nightie to the Battery sea|the bloody fascist terror in the wall, got ten quarts of sea water|South. Speakers have been aranged and took a taxi to his studio to|/for to speak at the dance on the | P i |“make salt” to send to Gandhi as jorderly demonstration of oneness of |, token,” Just what it’s a token of [Purpose which was so beautifully he didn’t tell us, but we take it that displayed”—at the S. L. P. May Day it’ was to bear out Marx's observa- |eelebration, which it says was “in-| tion that history repeats itself “once piring and quite remunerative.’ las a tragedy, again as a farce.” |Gandhi’s salt making a tragedy for | It was remunerative, we read fur- Heron eu the’ collection ‘Was | the starving millions of India, Dun- Bysereeas was “inspiring, We | can’s a farce, played by a parasitic | gather, from the following meaty | freak. i present situation in Atlanta, Sac urday night. The best orchestra in th» city has been arranged for ta dish out enchanting music. Another attraction will be the participation of the L. S. U. delega- |” of June 28 and 29. These delegates’ will take part in several events and will ‘receive a grand send-off by struggle to which the masses in the | the date and to proceed enereetien I | loxeerpt of the resolution adopted: “Whereas, we see the bulk of the ¢ class of America unheed. | ful of their class interests, while | | even the so-called revolutionary por- tion of that working class is still unwilling to accept the inexorable logie of the Socialist Labor Party,” jete.; “therefore, be it resolved, that, | we reaffirm unconditionally the tac-| | tical position of the Socialist Labor Party,” and so on. Funny, isn’t it, how that “inex- grable” logic fails to register. \Such Faith Is Touching—, Emil Vandervelde, leader of the| |in one way or another. The Love- their fellow sportsmen. This year the L. S. U. has taken’ stonites cry for Gandhi, salt and all,!care to assigu capable athletic i as a “symbol.” The I. W. W. papers| st uctors to the various proletarian try to make Gandhi’s salt bysiness|camps in the vicinity of New Yor! seem important by saying that “ac-) Workers going out to these canms cording to medical authorities, the|for a rest should see the L. S. Us consumption of salt in large doses instructor and have him ign to is necessary for the poor, vegetari-| them some athletic activitie ans and tropical peoples.” The In-|they may get the full benefit of” dian workers and peasants are their rest in order to be better Tit fighting against British imperial- | for the cla: ism so they won’t have to remain; “poor” nor have to eat only vege-) tarian diet, i. e. rice, and damned | © little of that—but Gandhj, Duncan,’ the Lovestonites and the I. W. W.! All the political freaks follow suit) aM anger War I cond “Socialist” International, is} 2cuter known as a social-fascist than ROME, June 6.—Fascist Italy an-! «1 Thursday a ‘raise in its) seviff_on imported wheat and corn) tvom 74 cents a quintal to 84 cents, ; (A metric quintal used in Italy is about three and two-thirds bushels.) The raise is to be effective at once. Italy Raises Tariff on Wheat and Corn demand that the Indians should! ‘ollowing thé? have only salt. Tefen; hoth Stanley Bald- yd George are memes Donald informed Parlia- mass consumptive products as and corn means a boost in the of living that will affect the ers. The tariff will also Jay that the govern- decided against the con- ruction of the proposed English Channel tunnel. This decision clear- contribute to deepen the world) ly reflects the tension of Anglo- economic crisis, especially the agra-| French relationship and is a sign of rian crisis in the United States and| the war danger among the imper- ialist powers. zo that: tion to the Berlin Red Sports meet''"?” { the Committee for Ne-.,°; , of which MacDonald "*”’