The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 20, 1930, Page 8

} Puplisteo by Page Figh’ New Vor the Comprodatly Pub daily City, NY phone St 1696-7-8 except Sunday Cabl 8 Union Square at 26-28 Union “DALWOR New York N ¥ How LIL ANDREWS. (Continued) By We hay ons and directives how to re 1g workers decisions profound to active But in re e young meeting and campaign these meetings sions are not carried out, because we are not tied up with the eve life of workers. An example, Thirt gc Philadelphia have a meeting one Sun They are reading from the “Communist Mant- festo.” This is presumably some sort of a study circle. There is no immediate necess i cuss some vital problem. There is no objection but no one rea workers who go There are young to dances, affair: But the comrades are reading the to.” This is no isolated example, it is typi It is one of the crass! examples of sectarianism in our Leag he young work will not flock ons on the cli to us, because we have resol struggle. We t go to the young work We must meet , talk to them. Not all our high-faluting polit expressions, But anguage which a young rades should look for the place young workers are to be found. Perhaps it would not be a bad idea to go to the Young Men’s Christian Association on some Sunday night young workers can be reached there. It will be that the Y.M.C.A. provides special social activity for the We must be there to make se young workers, explain to racter of the bosses social activity which provided in order to win them r the capitalist class. Perhaps it would not a bad idea to go to some clubs, as the Chi- cago comrades are now doing. Approach them on the basis of the revolutionary youth paper, the “Young Worker”—ask them for their sup- port, ask them to read our paper. Leave a few copies with them. Send out a squad of com- rades to visit. contacts in order to establish a shop nucleus. In Chicago we were able to or- ganize two shop nuclei by going out to the homes of the young workers, and later calling them in to meetings to discuss concrete daily problems. A shop paper was issued, consistent- ly followed up by visiting contacts, calling meetings, and visiting the young workers again. would not be a bad idea comrades. cuss these questions—bring the ex- ces to the attention of the other districts in which young workers contact with t them clear}; ague Plenum. These are sharp criticisms. Some comrades’ think them too sharp. But we must in- such criticism. We must provoke more criticism. And what is self criticism? It is a method of prime importance in developing ig leadership. It is a method by which uncover our shortcomings, in order them. It is a method by which we learn from our mistakes and learn how not to repeat these mistakes. Some comrades can make speeches criticizing themselves and criti- cizing others. Many comrades take criticism as a “confessional” to which they must go ever so often and bare their sins. But our criticism must be developed so that it is considered as a method.of CORRECTING our mistakes, as a method of finding new ways of doing work and building up our League. Many of us are per- fectly willing to “criticize” such things as ir responsibility, for instance. And after they have heaped sackcloth and ashes upon their own and each others heads, they go back and continue with the same murderous irresponsi- bility. It must be clearly understood that self- criticism is a farce unless it is concretely ap- We Work plied and carried out then proceding not to which we have learned portunism in practi Then there are comrades who definitely resist criticism. Some comrades at the begin- ning of the Shock Plan resisted an estima- mation of the situation of our League as “extremely critical.” These comrades wished to have it stated that “There are shortcom- ings. But we have progress.” No iron base in the factories. Where is progress? New members not kept. Where is progress? Few young Negro workers in the League. Please define this progress. The comrades perhaps were afraid that a fearless discus- sion of our shortcomings and mistakes would Accepting crticism and arty out the lessons nothing short of op- are give the reactionaries, the counter-revolu- tionists such as the Trotskyites and the Lovestonites, room for an atta The fight against Trotskyism, against Lovestonism has consolidated the Party and the League and h cleared the deck for real mass work. ve no fear for bold criticism of really revolutionary or- ganization openl ticizes itself before the working class. We will grow strong precisely because we are able to criticize ourselves and correct ourselves. Factional Hang-Overs. Old factional traditions still influence some reactions of our comrades. An exam- ple. A directive comes to some comrade. This comrade does not look to see how the directive can be put velop the work nto effect so as to de- f the League. But the com- rade looks to see who wrote the directive, when it was written, how it was written. And to be one whom the comrade does not like means to put the directive aside. Sometimes the comrade says: “Oh, I know this guy. He’s no good.” And his inevitable reaction to the directive will be “I don’t like it.” What is the natnral result of such a reaction? The comrade doesn’t like it. He doesn’t carry it out. The work is not done. We are no “lovers” of our work. We are Communist workers. We are serious League workers. Whether we like one com- rade or the other—or whether we like one directive or the other doesn’t matter. Our immediate reaction must be “How can I help carry 1 work out.” How can I get others to carry this work out.” The “I don't like it” attitude—this subjective at- titude leads to direct sabotage of the work of the League. We must do away with this method of work. Today the League is starting to progress. Real basic changes are taking place. But only, through determined, fear- less self-criticism and a correct estimation of the failnres, the shortcomings and the tasks of the League, will we be able to build. Our job today is to complete the shock plan. We must insist upon every member of the Lea- gue carrying out simple, concrete day to day tasks. The membership of the League must criticize, control the leadership. Real collec- tive leadership must be developed. One or two comrades who are active in the work canot build a mass organization. Every com- rade must be dri into concrete activity Checkup and investigation of all our activi- ties. Particular stress on new methods of work in connection with our factory work. The Plenum will really disenss vital con- crete problems of our League. The districts and the units must make themsélves respon- sible for bringing these points to the Plenum in the form of concrete experiences and les- sons. The Pre-Plenum discussion must be a real serious discussion of all our taks. Every unit, every ditrict must be represented in this discussion. Our activity must be freely and fearlessly disensed. And by the time of the National Convention of our League we will be able to say that we have basically changed our League into a real mass organ- ization of the young workers. make ~ Hands Ott the - The following Manifesto has been issued by the revolutionary Chinese workers to the Sol- diers and Marines of the Foreign Powers in China: Dear Comrades, Once more, we, the workers and peasants of China, appeal to you, who are yourselves memn- bers of the working class and sons of workers and peasants, to realize your position as tools of imperialist oppression and exploitation. and to cooperate with us against our common class enemies, the capitelists, militarists, and im- perialists. The four hundred million workers and peas- ants of China are engaged in a life and death struggle against all the forces of reaction and oppression, We are fighting against the mili- tarists of all shades and cliques, whether they be of the Kuomintang (the Chiang Kai-Shek gang) or the Northern Militarist Clique, or the so-called Reorganizationists or “Ironsides,” etc. We are fighting against, the militarists wars which have brought ruin and famine and untold misery to our working masses, the same way the imperialist war of 1914 brought death, starvation and misery to the toiling masses in your own countries. We are fighting als: against the imperialists who are behind the ong or the other militarist gangs in China, and who Jend their support to the darkest forces of reaction and counter-revolution in our coun- try. Lesson of Last Imperialist War Soldiers and Sailors of England, U. S. A.. France, Japan and the other powers in Chin: In the last imperialist war of 1914, you were called upon by your own militarists and im- perialist governments to slaughter your own fellow workers for no other cause than for the profits of your bankers and capitalist blood suckers, More than ten million of our clays workers and peasants, were killed in that mass slaughter. You were both the tools and victims of that bloody imperialist war. which besides ten million killed, and many more millions maimed and wounded, brought on famine, ruin. devastation to the whole world. The only sufferers were the workers and peas ants; the only victors were the canitelists »~} Chinese Soviets! | militarists, whether in Germany, France, U. S. A., Great Britain, or Japan. But our of that great hambles of 1914-1918 there emerged the First Workers Republic, | Soviet Russia, where for the first time in his- tory, the working class seized power and estab- lished over one-sixth of the earth, the victori ous Republic of Workers’, Peasants’ and Sol- diers’ Soviets, Out of that war there also emerged the great revolutionary wave which roused the hundreds of millions of oppressed and exploited colonial peoples in China, India, Tndonesia, Indo-China, ete., to rebel against the handful of imperialist brigands who throttle these countries, and ageinst their own capi- talist, militarist and feudal exploiter and op- pressors who are working hand in haid with the various imperialist powers. Refuse to be Tools of Imperialists Soldier and Sailors of the foreign Powers in China! This time you are again being used as tools of the imperialists and of our com- mon class enemy against your own class broth- ers. the Chinese workers and peasants, who are fighting for their emancipation as a class from the triple yoke of Militarism, Capitalism and Imperialism. You are being used by the same imperialist brigands against us, by the same canitalists and bankers and profiteers, who at thls very moment are similarly trying to crush the British, American, French and Japanese workers at home, where millions are unem- ployed, where your brothers and sisters are also condemned to starvation, and where the revolutionary movement js also growing from day to day. Foreign Soldiers and Sailors in China! A new imperialist world bloodbath., new wars, are being prepared by those who have sent you and who are using you against us here, and once more you are to be the tools and vietims of the new imperialist war. The First Workers Republic of Soviet Russia is to be the main target of the ceming war. The cap- italist and imperialist spiders and bloodsuckers cannot tolerate to see the workers and peas- ants of Russia successfully building up Social- im, having thoroughly gotten rid of their cap- ital militarists and landowners. At the seve time you are being used to crush the : ists and imperialists. ! throw the rule of the militarists, the feudal | barons and capitalists. THE STATUE OF CIVIC VIRTUE NEWS ITEM:—Mayor Walker says: “Graft! SUBSCRIMLION RATES: 4y mati everywrere: One year $6; six months $3; two months 31; excepting Boroughs of Havhattan ond Bronx New York City and foreign which are: One yr. $8; eix mons, $4.50 Sees Why, just point it out, and I'll drive it out.” BY BULL. Re an he ea eC ae ta revolutionary movements in China, India, Indo- China, Indonesia, etc. Foreign Soldiers and Sailors! our Class! Do not permit yourselves to be used as pas- sive and blind tools of imperialist oppression and counter-revolution. Instead, you must fight on the side of the workers and peasants of China, you must turn your bayonets and guns against our common class enemy—the militar- You must help us over- Brethren of Our struggle is only part of the great revolutionary liberation strug- gle which the international proletariat is car- rying on against capitalism and imperialism. You must come to the defence of the First Workers Republic of Soviet Russia. You must follow the glorious example of the French sailors of the Black Sea Fleet who mutinied and refused to shoot upon the Russian work- ers who were then fighting against the ene- mies of the revolution. You must help us in the struggle for Freedom, Peace and Rice. You aust help in our great struggle which aims at establishing Workers’, Peasants’ and Sol- diers’ Soviets in China, and liberating our coun- try from Militarism, Capitalism and Imperial- ism. Fighting Against Common “nemies British, America} French, Japanese and other foreign Soldiérs and Sailors in China! We are fighting the same battle which the British, American, French, Japanese and other workers are fighting at this very moment in your countries. Together with the workers and peasants of the capitalist countries, and hand in hand with the victorious workers and reasants of Soviet Russia, we the workers and peasants of China and the other great colonial , countries (India, Indo-China, Indonesia, Philip- pines, ete.), shall rid the earth of the scourge of capitalism. You, as sons of our class, as sons of workers and peasants yourselves, you must be on our side. Hold your weapons strong in hand, but use them in the right direction— ‘ against those who have sent you here, against your commanders, against the militarist and imperialist clique who are using you only to save and increase their profits out of our misery, Down with M Turn Imperialist War into Civi] and Class War! Turn your Weapons against our common class enemies! Defend the First Workers Republic of Soviet Russia! Fight with us for Freedom and Peace, for a Soviet China! avist and Imperialist Wars! Hail the Chinese revolution! A population of over 60 million people in China is alres uncer the rule oc the hammer and sickle. The Red Army is marching on. But the imperial- ists are planning intervention. American, B ish and Japanese gunboats are “active” i China. The Communist Party je rallying th workers to the defense of the Chinese revoly tion, Vote Communtst! A vote for the Communist ticket is a vote | for the Soviet Union, a vote for the Chinese | revolution, for unemployment relief, against speed-un, wage cuts, against capitalism. Vote Communist! “Socialist” Unemployment Insurance Is Strikebreaking By I. AMTER. Prisoner No. 52351 (Communist Candidate in the 23rd Congres- s‘onal District, Bronx) Despite assertions by economic bureaus amd the N. Y. State Industrial department, that the figures on unemployment first published by the U. S. Census Bureau were incorrect, Hoover as late as Angust declared that there were only 2,500,000 unemployed in the United States. Two employes of the Census Bureau resigned because they could not agree with such faking methods; other people pointed out that the census as regards unemployment was not only not taken correctly but was deliberately organized in such a manner as to make the number look small. . “Socialists” Aid Lying. This lying and faking continued, with re- publicans, aided by the “socialists,” playing down the figures (the S. P. “estimating” the number at somewhere more than 3,000,000). while the democrats tried to make political capital ont of the situation. The Communist ‘Party, basing its estimate on the faets of industry, declared at the be- ginning that 5,000,000 were jobless (in No- vember); with the sharpening of the crisis it | | raised the number, so that by August. it claimed that 8,000,000 workers were unem- ployed. At the end of August Dr. William Stuart, | director of the Census Bureau, declared that 7,090,000 to 9,000,000 workers are jobless his confirms the figure of the Commu Party and shows its close connection with the masses—and it exposes the lies of Hoover and the “socialists.” What Has Been Done? What has been done to help the millions of unemployed? The notorious “building pro- gram” of the Hoover conference last No- vember is one of the biggest pieces of frand and hokum ever put across on a_ suffering working class. This seven billion dollar build ing program shows to du instead of an increase over 1929, a decline for the first seven months of 1930, This is Hoover’s relief for the unemploy What has démocratie New York State done for the more than 1,000,000 unemployed? Ab- solutely nothing, although the Indust De- partment was continually pointing out the situation which was growing ever more seri- ous. What did the city administrations-—espe- cially New York City—do? Mayor Walker not only ridiculed the unemployed but did not suffering of the unemployed men and women /4than $500,000—but not a penny for the un- | make the slightest effort to relieve the suf- ferings of the 800,000 unemployed in New York City. \ Breadlines half a mile long, nfunicipal lodging houses crammed to the doors, men and women sleeping in parks, crime, as a consequence of the situation, on the increase, prisons full —but what did the state and city of New York do about it? Whalen’s cossacks beat up the unemployed, sent the leaders of the unemployed to the penitentiary. This was duplicated in every industrial center of the country—ineluding Milwaukee, the “socialist” town! Walker Hzs Funds When It Suits His Interests. Walker could not “constitutionally” obtain any funds to aid the unemployed, but he found it possible in ‘the midst of the deep and their families, to raise his own salary and that of some borrough officials, and later to raise the pay of his henchmen by more employed! | The U. S. Congress passed Senator Wag- ner’s bills for a census of the unemployed and for full federal employment bureaus. But they will have as much success in furnish- | ing jobs as Walker’s free employment office has had—they will “discover” the masses of | the unemployed—but no jobs to give them, | because of the economic crisis. t The Solution for Unemployment. ' Capitalism cannot guarantee workers a job | and unemployment will continue until cap- | italism is overthrown. Under capitalism there is always an. army of unemployed reckoned | n the U. S. at 1,500,000 in “normal” times. | The worker has a right to a job in order to earn a living—or he should have the right. If capitalism cannot provide him with a job, then it must furnish hiny with the means of living. Work or Wages in the form of un- employment insurance is the demand of the Gommunist Party, the revolutionary unions and the unemployed. This demand was raised on March 6, international day of struggle against unemployment, for the world eeono- mic crisis has thrown 20,000,000 workers into | the streets to starve in the capitalist coun- | | tries, What About the “Socis'i: What does the “socialist” party propose to “do in this situation? (We will not deal with “socialist” approval of the use of night- | sticks, tear gas and jailings, for as a third capitalist party we must expect the American “socialists,” iike the “socialists” the world over, not only to approve but to use capital- ist. methods against the workers—Wngland, Germany, Austria, Poland, Australia.). The “socialist party, reeornizing that the workers are militantly adopting the Commu- nist slogan: Don't Starve—Fight!—and hav- ing the function t6 show the capitalists the new way of protecting capitalism, propose a strikebreaking uremployment scheme, such as is in operation in England and Germany. A. J. Muste, the “socialist” trade unionist, propoves government irsurance to cover un- employment of no more than 26 weeks and not to begin till after the first week. Twenty- | six weeks!—when the N. Y. employment of- fice registered workers wh» have heen wn. | employed fo~ -" * : Ties, | Comraunist A By JORGE A Religious Ceremony Words fail us, when we stand before such awe inspiring jackasses as the Governor of Virginia. We can only tell the story, and let the reader judge whether or not we should choose capitalist witchcraft or the Thesis of the Sixth World Congress of the Communist In- ternational. On September 11, at Norfolk, Va., a party of state, business and civic representatives of capital: put out into Chesapeake Bay on the steamer Vir; ia Lee. Besides Governor Pollard and a Baptist preacher, who led the ceremonies, the whole crowd gathered at the steamer’s rail to aid in the casting out of devils into the mighty deep. The devils were effigies, of clothes, straw and sand, made up to represent “Old Man Depression,” “Mrs. Pessimism,” and their sup- posed daughter, “Miss Fortune.” They were “tried before a jury” and after the Reverent P. Rowland Wagner had read the funeral cere- mony, they were pushed overboard into the tide of Hampton Roads, while Governor Pol- lard got off the following, which we think should be conserved in the chamber of histori- cal ,idiocies: Old Man Depression, Old Lady Pessirtwm and your unhappy daughter Miss Fortune, the United States is no place for you. You never had any real justification to be here anyhow. You were wraiths, unsubstantial. You lived upon mass timidity. You were cre- ated by unjustified fears. I will say to you, Old Lady Pessimism, as you stand here on the brink of eternity, about to leave us, that the depths of pessimism to which the country sunk were by no means justified by the facts. You were the product of a mood, but Amer- ican economic history shows that the mood of depression is very rarely of long duration. Your time has come. Miserable creatures! 1 consign you to a watery grave. Your doom is sealed. Old Man Hard Work, Lady Optim- ism, Little Johnny Payroll and Miss Good Fortune are here to take your place. We of Virginia, now assembled on shipboard, in the great and historic port of Hampton Roads, on behalf of the-whole country have decided to become your executioners. You have been duly tried by a jury of your peers and found guilty of subterfuge and as undesirable ali- ens, and now, as Governor of Virginia, I pro- claim you shall be sent to the realm of un- reality where you belong.” All we got to say about this, is that the “Majority Group” ought to have had a repre- sentative there. A united front with Governor Pollard would just about fit Lovestone. The “labor” government in England is help- ing the bosses speed-up the workers. Since McDonald entered into office, in one lear, the army of unemployed in Great Britain, has doubled. In Germany, unemployment is rising The socialists are doing the work for the bos- ses. Fight the bosses and their servants. Vote Communist! If a worker gets a job for a day or a few hours a week, he will not be entitled to un- employment insurance. This is the strike- breaking proposal of the Muste group. Look at Germany and England! The “socialist” party proposes government insurance raised by contributions to be made by the employers and the government, the fund to be administered by the government. Combined with federal employment offices, it provides the following outlook: The gov- ernment will send a worker to a job which may ofer board and room but no pay, as in Detroit and Seattle. If he refuses to accept the job, he will get no insurance. It may give him a job of a few days—then again he will get no insurance! or it may assign him to a distant place and if he refuses to, militant worker and has organized worker: accept, he will get no insurance. If he is a to strike against miserable conditions in th shop, he may be deprived of unemploymen insurance. This discrimination against mili tants is being practced n Germany and Eng land—wth “socialists” on the governmen' boards. Thus the “socialist” scheme is a cap: italist strikebreaking proposal. The Comunist Insurance Bill. The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bil is the only proposal that will realiy protec! the unemployed and employed workers, | provides for a fund of five billion dollars, the amount now being spent for war pur. poses (Not a cent for war, all funds for th unemployed!), increased. by a capital levy on all properties of $25,000 or more, and a pro: gressive tax on all incomes exceeding $5,000. The worker furnishes not a penny to th fund. The unemployment insurance shall b disbursed throngh a National Workers In surance Commission, composed of unemployed] and employed workers and elected at a na- tional conference, as well as through state and local commissions. Insurance begins from the first day of unemployment and_ shall amount to $25 per week for the unemployed worker (part time workers shall be entitled to a sum securing them a minimum of the same amount) plus $5 for each dependent. This is the only real Unemployment Insur- sal and the workers, unemployed] shops, unions, fraternal organizations cic. The government and the capitalists will grant nothing without a fight. This is the bill the Communist Party proposes in the elec tion campaign which the workers must back “socialist” party proposal is a strike- % proposal. Workers! Support th Party and its candidates! Vote Communist! (Written at Harts Island Penitentiary.) William Green and Mathew Woll are among, the rulers of America. capitalist They support all th parti Republican, Democratic t,” that nd for this capitalist so, ote against capitalism! Vote Com- rounist! ‘The socialist party, the party of petty bour. estate speculate professionals, is, clergymen and labor fakers, is tn third capitalist party. The workers of Ger many, England and other countries learne that they can get nothing from the socialis nerty, Vote against the capitalist parties pat Bea ’