The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1930, Page 6

7 Published by the Comprod Square, New York Cit Address and m all checks to the Da BUILDING FACTORY NUCLEI IN WAR INDUSTRIES By WM. SCHNEIDERMAN N the basis of our experiences in Connecti- cut in preparing for the August 1st demon- strations, we can draw certain lessons for the Party regarding the possibility of building shop nuclei. It is needless to point out that the crisis has created an extremely favorable } situation for the Party to carry on its present | campaigns. | Connecticut has been hard-hit by lay-offs and complete shut-downs in practically every industrial center. New Haven shows a 15 per cent increase in unemployment for the month of June, 1930, as compared to June, 1929, even by the unreliable figures of the Chamber of Commerce. Hartford shows 11 per cent of its population unemployed. In other cities most of the large plants like General Electric, Rem- ington, U. S. Rubber, and American Brass are working at the most only 3 to 4 days a week, while plants like Colt’s Arms Manufacturing are completely shut-down. In addition to this, there are reports of wage- cuts of 10 per cent in Remington; a wage- cut in Crane’s and the men’s bonus withdrawn; a proposed wage-cut of 20 per cent in the Ber- lin Construction Company, which was reduced to 10 per cent whent 100 construction workers walked out in spontaneous one-day strike; and a 5 per cent wage-cut in a Seymour tex- tile mill. Unpardonable Neglect The serious under-estimation by the Party of carrying on factory work can be seen in the attempts made to form a shop-committee in a rubber plant. After a meeting of rubber work- ers was ealled, several workers showed up, but the comrade in charge failed to show up, and no meeting was held. Since then, of course, it has been exceedingly difficult to get these disappointed workers to a meeting. In- stead of visiting them, the local comrades de- pended on sending them a notice through the mails, without any results. For a long time we had two Party members working i the factory, but attached to a street nucleus. By the simple expedient of sending a comrade to visit a worker in the factory ! known to be sympathetic to the Party, he was persuaded to join the Party; we immediately assigned a capable comrade of the District Committee:to form a shop nucleus of these three comrades, and to become a member of their nucleus to assist them in their work; their task outlined, was to immediately call a meet- ing of workers to form a shop committee from connections they have; to arrange a factory- gate meeting; and '» discuss the contents of a Party shop-paper to be issued before August 1st. In order to meke sure that these tasks are carried out, and not merely remain on paper, the somrade wc attached to the nucleus is held directly responsible to the District Committee that they are carried out. Nucleus Organized in Munition Plant \ A similar experience can be recorded in a large munition p'int where we have had a aumber of connections for quite some time, but which we failed to crystallize into organ- izational resvits. Although a decision was made to call a meeting to form a shop-com- k did 1 the mittee, the comrades assigned to this not even visit the workers involved, street nucleus charged with this task w so busy discussing routine matters like pi language activities, ete., that they completely overlooked this question till they were called sharply to account by the District Committee. On investigation, we found that we already had a Party and Y.C.L. member working in there, and at least two other sympathizers, one a Negro worker, who could be brought into the Party with « little effort. We again attached a member of the District Committee to a committee of the street nucleu. to visit those workers and form a shop nucleus, with in- structions to issue a shop-paper dealing with August Ist, hold a factory-gate meeting there, and to call a meeting of all our connections there for the purpose of forming a shop-com- mittee. A Third Experience Our third experience was in a nucleus where we had three comrades working in a brass foundry. In discussing the formation of a shop nucleus there, the objections raised were that one of the three ades worked in a different plant of the same company, a short distance away; no shop-papers were ever is- sued, and no factory-gate meetings attempted. We again attached a comrade to form a shop nucleus there, and to issue a shop-paper. In trying to get in for the issuance of shop- papers, our comrades working in the factories refuse or neglect to give important informa- tion about conditions in the factory. In the Colt’s Arms Manufacturing Company, where we were preparing to issue a shop-paper and hold factory-gate meetings, we only found out at the last minute that the plant was shutting down, and barely tog out the shop-paper in time to distribute on the day the plant was closing. Overcome Resistance In order to put into effect our resolutions to build shop nuclei, we must analyze such ex- periences in order to overcome the difficulties facing us. First of all, we must carry on a sharp struggle against the indifferent attitude of Party members and units to doing factory work, which amounts to resistance to carrying out the Party line. Secondly, we must set concrete tasks for the units for concentration on certain factories to build shop-committees and shop-nuclei. Thirdly, we must assign our most capable leading comrade in every dis- trict to be directly responsible for work in cer- tain factoris. Any comrade who thinks that because he is a leading finctionary such ‘“‘de- tail” work is beneath him, thereby exposes his opportunist attitude on the basic task before the Party, that of building shop nuclei. The small beginnings we have made in the Connecticut district to orientate the Party toward factory work, particularly in the war industries, (munitions, rubber, etc.), must be energetically followed up and utilized in the campaign to build unemployed councils and shop-committees of the T.U.U.L., in the elec- tion campaign, and in the remaining few days we have to prepare the anti-war demonstrations on August Ist. Bosses Cut Wages, Speed Up in Preparation for Imperialist War By JACK JOHNSTONE. Acece FIRST 16 years ago marked the be- ginning of the greatest organized and most scientific slaughter of workers in the history of the world, ending four years later after the killing of 12 million workers and peasants and the crippling of unknown millions. Time plus control of all avenues of education has always been a factor that favored the government in blotting out of the minds of the rising genera- tion of workers the brutal class character of all imperialist wars and in hiding from them the working class lessons learned in these major class struggle experiences. Today we stand in the shadow of another world war, with the United States and Great Britain going through their preliminary ma- neuvers, as Germany and Great Britain did prior to August 1, 1914, to get into advantage- ous position for attack. Behind all the diplo- matic stage settings, fake peace conferences, etc., is, on the one hand, the tremendous pro- duction of arms and amunition, the terrific race for superior naval power, the building of a tremendous war machine at a break neck speed, and on the other hand, the slashing wage cutting campaign, terrific speed-up, reduction of working force, For Peace! For Big Navies! The race to build larger navies to place all industries upon a war basis and to accumulate a tremendous supply of war material, is only equaled by the race between the capitalist gov- ernment to produced cheap commodities, that is, to lower the living standards of the workers. This, while it is aimed at overcoming the @isis at the expense of the workers, deepens the crisis. It is very obvious that if the work- ers’ living standards are cut, that if 8,000,000 workers in this country, five million in Ger- many, three million in Great Britain, and so » on, are unemployed, that the workers buy less, and as the workers constitute the great bulk of the world’s buying market it is bound to cause a further shrinking of the home as well as the ‘world’s market, deepening the crisis, drawing war still nearer and making war an Workers! Join the Party of -* Your Class! Communist Party U.S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. immediate inevitable part of the U. S. A. pro- gram for control of the world market. Speed-Up Is War Preparation. The preparation for war, like war itself, is part of the offensive of the capitalist class against the working class, One cannot separ- ate the wage cutting, rationalization campaign, the throwing out of millions of workers to starve in the streets, from the preparations being made for imperialist war. Billions of dollars for war, but clubs, bullets and jails for the unemployed is the bosses’ program. The employing class understand this very clearly; that is why they viciously attack the most advanced section of the working class, that is workers who fight them. The ruthless methods used in smashing all strike struggles by the employers and by their agents, Green, Woll, Thomas, the company police, the courts, lynch law for Negroes, clubs and bullets for strike pickets and for demonstrations of hun- gry men and women, long prison sentences for the leaders of these movements, the fake in- vestigation of the Fish Commission are all parts of the attack against the workers, part of war preparations. Attack Workers. @ The international attack against the Soviet Union, which represents the most advanced section of the international working class, dif- fers only in degree and magnitude from the attack upon the striking auto workers in Flint, Mich., the attack upon the striking woolen workers in Yourkshire, England, etc. To organ- ize workers to fight against wage cuts hinders the wage cutters’ campaign and the war pre- parations and prepares the workers for strug- gle against war, against capitalism. Today we see all capitalist guns trained upon the most advanced section of the world’s pro- letariat, the workers of the Soviet Union, Strikes against wage cuts, rationalization, unemployment, for wage increases, social in- surance for the unemployed, for the seven- hour day and five-day week is also a struggle against war and for defense of the Soviet Union. Build Party and the T. U. U. L. August First anti-war demonstrations must bring organizational results. Our party and the revolutionary unions and leagues should register a definite organizational strengthen- ing. The struggle against wage cuts, against unemployment, against the speed-up, against police terror, against imperialist war, for the -seven-hour day and five-day week, for unem- ployment insurance, for release of Foster, Am- ter, Minor and Raymond and the other class war prisoners, for defense of the Soviet Union, ne take on weight only through strike strug- gles. To the extent that we are able to organize the workers to strike for these demands, to that extent will the struggles of the workers be successful. This means the building of our party, the organization of fighting shop com- mittees, revolutionary industrial unions, the developing of the T.U.U.L. as the independent leader of the economic struggles of the work- ers, only in this way can we develop our party into a mass party, into the leader of all the struggles of the workers, Fight Starvation and Bosses’ War! orker wnist Porty U.S.A. By / by Gropper Demonstrate On August First! Avenge Our Martyrs- Katovis,Levy,Gonzales, Weizenberg By R. B. 'HESE three militant workers, members of the Communist Party, were murdered by the, New York police at the behest of the bosses in the last few months, Comrades Katovis, Levy and Gonzales are our fallen revolutionary soldiers in the ever sherp- ening struggle between the working class and the capitalist class that characteri-es the pre- sent period. The brutal murder of these three militant workers in the very thick of the class war battles symbolizes and expresses the new fas- cist tactics of the capitalist class. The imprisonment for three years without trial of Foster,.Minor, Amter and Raymond, the charge of insurrection against six Commu- nist organizers in Georgia, the 42-year senter- ces to union organizers in the Imperial Valley, Cal., the Fish investigation committee proposals to outlaw the Communist Party and the rev- olutionary organizations of the workers, etc, are a systematic and conscious development of the fascist war preparations in the U. S. A. The murder of workers on the picket lines, at mass meetings and demonstrations are the cruder expressions of this fascization process. Determined to Fight. Scores of thousands of workers solemnly have pledged their determination over the mur- dered bodies of Katovis, Levy and Gonzales, to resist and crush this growing terrorism by organizing determined and adequate defense of all workers’ struggles and activities. The tide of fascist terrorism can only be stemmed by organized and determined mass resistance and offensive struggles of the work- ing class. The principal forms of workers’ defense movement must be composed of small units of workers defense corps organized by unions, shop committees and all workers organizations. These groups of 8 or 10 must be linked to- gether on a city scale through a central body. Each of the units must act as the nucleus of defense and rally around itself the masses of workers in defense of picket lines, mass meet- ings, demonstrations, etc. Organize Workers’ Defense Corps! The organization of workers defense corps into small units of eight or ten does not con- fine the defense activities to small picked groups of workers but rather implies the organ- ization of the masses of workers into small mobile and effective fighting groups. This new form of workers organizations must be the answer of the working class to the ter- rorist fascist tactics of the bosses. However, it must be understood that the strengthening and building of all the militant mass organiza- tions must be simultaneously intensified. The names of Katovis, Levy and Gonzales must become the watch words in the movement to organize the workers defense apparatus, The formation of workers defense corps is a vital part of the struggle against the war danger. The Young Workers and the Imperialist War By R. SHOHAN LEARER and clearer can be discerned the rumblings of the coming world war. The raids on the Soviet Consulates, the Fish in- vestigation committee, the’ ‘statements of Hughes, and on the Indian situation, the speeches of Mussolini, all indicate to us that war is closer now than what it has ever been since August, 1914. Each year bosses spend more and more money for armaments. Expenditures for war preparations in the United States have reached the sum of eight hundred million dollars this year. Each year more and more money is spent by the bosses for organizations training young workers for the coming world war. Training For War In New York and in New Jersey alone there are no less then ten thousand young workers and students being trained in the C.M.T.C. The national guard has reached the membership of one hundred seventy six thousand, in the country. The boy and girl scouts “are estab- lishing “cub” organizations in order to reach still further masses of workers children and capture them for war preparations. In the meantime, the bosses worsen the con- ditions of the young workers. Thé world economic crisis has resulted in wage cuts after wage cuts for young workers, in ever increas- ing speed-up, in tremendous unemployment. In the United States alone, there are over one and a half million young workers unemployed. Their number is constantly ‘increasing. Aug- mented by still further lay-offs, and the leay- ing of school by tens of thousands of work- ers’ children who try to find employment in order to help their families. When these young workers lose their jobs they find them- selves in even worse, positions than the adult workers, Their wag$s of eight to twelve dol- lars a week on the average, do not allow them to have any savings and place starvation be- fore them directly. To make matters worse for the young workers many times they are the only supporters of their families, their parents having been thrown out of work by speed-up and by unemployment. In order to prevent the young workers from organizing for struggle against war and in order to pre- pare them for the next war, the bosses utilize and organize organizations such as the Ama- teur Athletic Association, the Y. M. C. A., ete. In these millions of young workers are pre- pared for war, The condition, of the Negro youth are still worse than those of the white young workers, Among them too, to an ever increasing extent, the bosses spread their tentacles, and try to capture them for their war preparations. In countless factories producing war mate- rials, or able to be transformed into plants manufacturing war materials, the young work- ers are employed in hundreds of thousands. These young workers suffer all effects of speed-up, wage cuts, of unemployment. Young Workers Struggle Everywhere the young workers enter the struggle for better conditions, In many strug-’ gles the young workers are among the leading forces. In all big demonstrations the work- ing youth is most militant. August Ist, 1930, means a lot to the young workers. They know of the last world war in which millions were killed for bosses profits. They see the example of the Soviet Union and want to get into the struggle against the bosses, % The socialist and the American Iederation of Labor are against the young workers and are actively preparing and defending the pre- parations for war. ‘The American Federation SUBSCRIPTION RATES: THE NEGRO WORK Mas‘hattan and Bronx, New York City. and foreign, which are: One yr. §5 mail everywhere: One year $6; six months $3; two months $1; excepting Boroughs of six mons. $1.50 ERS AND WAR PREPARATIONS popes the working class of America is faced | gro member of the Communist Party, war with an intolerable situation, While eight million unemployed workers are walking th streets without any means of supporting t families, those that still remain working are having their wages lowered, hours increased and are being speeded up at an unheard of rate. On top of all this the bosses are making feverish preparations for a new world war. Negro Workers Discriminated Against. The Negro workers are in the present situa- tion subject to even greater suffering than the white workers, Although both are exploited by the same white master class, the Negroes while at work receive ‘lower wages, work longer hours and are the first to be laid off. Being segregated to special sections of the city, they must pay higher rents and are sub- ject to insults, Jim-Crowism and are branded and treated as social outcasts. The bosses, the capitalist class and their servants have built up a complete system of segregation and race hatred to keep the colored and white workers apart. With this policy of “divide and con- quer the weakest,” the white American bosses have succeeded in extending the super-exploita- tion of the Negro masses in Northern indus- trial centers. . Negroes Are a National Minority. Like the oppressed and exploited toiling masses of China, Africa, India, Philippines, etc., the American Negroes are denied the most elementary social and political tights. The American Negroes are a rich source of super- profits for the white exploiters. In order to keep the Negro masses in their state of sub- jection and servitude, the white capitalists and landlords have built up a special machine of oppression, the Negroes are not only exploited as workers and farmers, but in addition they are subj .t to >] exploitation as an oppressed national minority. For Full Social and Political Equality. Negroes must understand that the white ex- ploiters, who have kept them enslaved for over 300 years, will not voluntarily give up their rights as exploiters. Negro mases must take their freedom through organized and relentless struggle. But the Negro masses alone and un- supported cannot achieve liberation from their white oppressors. The Negroes have friends and allies among the white population. The natural allies of the Negro masses are the white workers who are exploited, robbed and starved by the same white capitalist class that robs and oppresses the Negro masses. The Comunist Party fights unreservedly For the Full Social, Political and Economic Equal- ity of the Negro Masses. The Communist Party further raises the slogan of the Right to Self-Determination of the Negro Masses, which means the right to set up a separate government of the Negro people in the South- ern states, as a guarantee that social and polit- ical equality will be achieved and protected by state power in the hands of the Negro masses. The Capitalists Fight the Communist Party. Only in the recent weeks Alfred Levy, a Ne- brutally murdered by the New York police while he was defending a Communist street meeting in Harlem, held in protest against lynching. Today six Communist organizers, among them two Negroes, are_held in prison in At- lanta, Georgia, and are faced with the electric chair, because they organized the white and Negro workers against lynching and terrox ism. Today the Fish investigation committee, composed of servants of Northern capitalista and “Gentlemen of the South,” is preparing t» outlaw the Communist Party because it leads all struggles for th interests of the working class and the Negro masses. Misleaders of Negro Masses. The Garvey movement began as the mass expression of the national striving of the Ne- gro masses for liberation and self-determina- tion. However, the Garvey movement has failed to achieve any results because it tried to divert the Negro liberation movement into & “back to Africa” retreat. The Garvey movement did not organize the Negroes for struggle against lynching and oppression, but tried to reach an “agreement” with the white oppressors. The Garvey movement failed to bring together into » com: on strug~’ the Negro mas %s and white workers again, their common enemy, the white capitalist oppressors. The Garvey leaders betray the Negro libera- tion movement by considering the entire white race as the enemies of the Negroes, while at the same time making friends with the real and only enemy of the Negro people, the white capitalist class. They utterly fail to see that the economic and political interests of white work- ers and Negroes are the same. In the recent weeks the workers of Harlem have witnessed the shameful acts of a few self-styled leaders of the Negroes, working hand in hand with the police in breaking up Communist meetings against lynchings. At one of these meetings Alfred Levy lost his life. These betrayers of the Negro masses are rais- ing a barrier of hatred between the white workers and the Negro masses. This handful of self-styled leaders and police agents must be repudiated by the Negro masses of Harlem. The Negro masses know only too well what happened to them in the last world war and after the war. In the coming war the Negroes will again be used as cannon fodder to fight for the interests of their white masters, while the lynch law and terror will be clothed in uniforms and enforced by machine guns and the white masters’ martial law. When the government of the United States officially segregates the Gold Star Mothers of the fallen Negro soldiers of the last war, its intention in the coming war is clearly revealed. Negro workers and white workers must now raise the alarm of struggle against war and all that it means. Not a moment must be lost. War to the Negro masses and white workers means further enslavement, martial law and bloody sacrifices for the interests of a small class of white exploiters. Fight Against the Deportation of Foreign-Born Workers ITH the increase of reaction against the revolutionary movement, the offensive against the working class is increasing. This is particularly evident in the offensive which has been started on a wide scale against the foreign-born workers. Parallel with the ter- rorism of lynching of Negro workers in the South, in the North we find a continuous and regular breaking up of workers’ meetings by the police and the gangsters of the American Federation of Labor with its fascist and social- fascist leadership. These attacks upon the revolutionary movement—the beating and mur- dering of members of the Party and the revo- lutionary unions, the persecution of foreign- born workers, who are jailed and turned over to the hands of the fescist hangmen of their respective countries, are made because they ex- press revolutionary ideas and because they are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Ameri- can working class against the fascism of American capitalism. The reason for the persecution of the for- eign-born workers is not to be found -only in the claim, made by the Fish eommittee, that the Communist Party is made up of 80 per cent of foreign-born workers. This claim, in itself, is a great stupidity when the mass of the Party is composed in large part of American-born or naturalized American citizens. The real reason for the persecution of the foreign-born goes much deeper than this. In t his period of the deepening of the economic crisis, of unem- ployment, the bourgeoisie have started a new offensive of terrorization, of discrimination of the foreign-born workers, for the purpose of dividing the American proletariat, placing the Negroes and the foreign-born workers on an even lower scale than their native-born fellow- workers, setting the white American-born workers against the foreign-born and the Ne- of Labor openly supports the navy building togram, Green lauds the C. M. T. C. and the national guard. The socialist party abandons even pretense at class struggle and bables petty bourgeois phrases that there will be no war, while actively defending the war prepara-| tions against other imperialist countries and against the Soviet Union. The pacifists are spreading their poison clouds, telling the work- ers that there will be nc war, doing their ut- most to keep the young workers unprepared for struggle when the war comes so that they may better be used for cannon-fodder. The capitalists are preparing for war and want to smash the militant organizations of the working youth, They remember better than many workers, how during the world war, the young workers, under the leadership of Lieb- knecht and Lenin demonstrated in all countries against war and fought the socialist party, be- trayers of the working class. We must organize to prevent the bosses’ war and turn alliattempts to start war into a civil war against bosses. When the bosses begin the war, we must use arms that they give us and use them against the bosses, defeat our bosses first, defend the Soviet Union, and es- tablish a workers and farmers government the Uniteu’ States. 5 gro workers, the employed against the unem- ployed, cutting still further the wages of all workers, thus bringing a greater pressure upon the entire working class of the United States, and creating the possibility of securing higher profits for the bosses. A. F. L, Fascists. This is one of the major reasons why the whole Communist movement is stamped as a foreign-born movement, and the representa- tives of the bourgeoisie, the Fish committee, the police, the fascist leadership of the A. F. of L., are speaking about mass deportations, finger-printing of the foreign-born. This bac- chanale of bourgeois patriotism shows only the helplessness of the bourgeoisie and is an ex- pression of its fear of the development of the class-consciousness of the American prole- tariat; together with the development of the crisis. The preparation for outlawing the Commu- nist Party and revolutionary unions is evidence of the reaction against the entire working- class movement, and particularly against the foreign-born workers. It is on this basis that in connection with our struggle for the legality of the Communist Party of the United States of America, with our struggle against the lynching of Negro workers, with our struggle for free speech, against the murderous police, against fascism, that we must develop a strong campaign, stronger than has ever been seen be- fore in the United States, among the foreign- born workers against deportation, against finger-printing, against discrimination and for the protection of the foreign-borne The foreign-born workers, who, together with their families, comprise a large part of the American population, are working in the basic industries of the country and are an in- tegral part of the American working class. They must protest vigorously against the scan- dalous attacks of the American bourgeoisie. The struggle of the foreign-born workers against deportation, against finger-printing, against discrimination, must be the struggle of the entire working class of the United States. The maneuver of the bourgeoisie in its effort to terrorize this part of the American working class, from whom the bourgeoisie have stolen millions of dollars in the form of profits, and whose life-blood they have sucked for genera- tions, will not succeed if the foreign-born work- ers, together with the rest of the American working class will raise a mass protest against this new attack. The most conscious part of the foreign-born workers, who are already organized in differ- ent mass organizations, sick and death benefit societies, cultural clubs, ete., the revolutionary unions, the International Labor Defense, the Workers’ International Relief, must be the leaders of the campaign against the bourgeois offensive on the foreign-born, must call the masses of the foreign-born workers to fight against this criminal maneuver, to fight hand in hand with the rest of the American working class, LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT OF THE CEN- TRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COM NIST PARTY OF THE UNITED ST OF AMRRIC*