The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1930, Page 5

Be ORES: NEW YORK, SoTUEDay, OCTOBER 4, 1930 DEVELOP NEW METHODS OF WORK IN Statement of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U. S.A. Our Seventh Convention reviewed the past work of the party and came to the conclusion that “our party is suffering from a decided disproportion between its organized strength and the mass activities which it initiates and leads. The readiness of great masses of workers to follow our party has led to a most serious underestimation of the value of organization. The reliance on spontaneous response in many instances replaces systematic organizational preparations. As a result, the party fails in a jarge measure to crystallize into permanent or- ganized strength the broad mass movements led by it.” As against this shortcoming the convention urged the party to organize systematic work among the workers in the shops and factories, to build and organize a mass movement, and out of this mass movement build a mass party. The The convention declared “the systematic mobili- zation of the workers for mass movements must permit the greatest initiative and broadcast participation in leadership of the best non-party elements among the masses, thereby bringing to the forefront the most energetic, the ablest, and the most militant elements among the non- party workers, who must be won for member- ship in the part, These decisions of the Seventh Convention have not yet been carried out. The turn has not yet been effected. This is especially evident in the election campaign. The campaign work is unsystematic, sporadic and follows time-worn methods which are completely out of harmony with bolshevism. To remedy this and to concretize for the party the turn decided upon by the Seventh Convention the Central Committee requests the immediate holding of election campaign mobilization meet- These meetings must be organized by all leading committees in the districts and sections and also by all units. In these meetings concrete plans of work must be worked out and discussed on the basis of the lead given in this resolution. At the same time the tasks growing out the plans must be definitely assigned to committees and to individual party members. All committees ind party members must be held responsible for the work thus assigned to them. The leading committees are not only responsible for plans and for guidance but also for the supervision of the execution of these plans, In taking up this present resolution of the Central Committee and in preparing its discus- sion in the party committees and party units the work proposed must be further concretized. This concretization must, for example, replace ‘a factory” in the resolution by a specifically named and assigned industrial establishment. It must also take into. consideration all the known facts of the industrial plant or establishment selected. Especially important in connection with the further concretization of the proposals of the Central Committee is the distribution of the work among all party members. Every member must be given a. specific function, whether it be leaflet distribution, visiting work- ers in their homes, work among unemployed be- fore factory gates or employment offices, house to house solicitation, visiting of those voters who ned our petitions, speaking, writing, etc. The unit executive assigns to each member one func- tion in accordance with the plan of work of the district and must check up on the member if he fulfills the function thus assigned. At the present moment we consider election day, November 4th, the concentration point of all the present activities of the party. Election day, so to speak, is to be a trial mobilization of of all theCommunist forces and the Communist influence. The election campaign is also a most effective weapon of struggle against the most dangerous social reformist and social fascist enemies of the working class, The mobilization of these forces takes place through a number of very important campaigns. The most outstanding of these campaigns are the Campaign of Unemployed Insurance, the Campaign Against Lynching, and the Campaign to build the T. U. U. L, All of these campaigns have an independent existence and independent culminafion points. The anti-lynching cam- paign endeavors to build the A. N. L. C, and to make its St. Louis convention on November 15 an organizational and political success. The T. U. U. L. campaign is to build the revolution- ary unions and to lead the workers i-to strikes against wage cuts, speed-up, and to strengthen the T. U. U. L. financially and organizationally. The unemployed campaign is to establish Party leadership over the masses of unemployed, which will be the greatest political factor in the class struggles of next winter, and to organize a tre- mendous mass campaign for our inemployment insurance bill. Yet, while all of these campaigns have an in- dependent existence and aims differing from each other, they are the main feeders for the election campaign of the Party. The diversity of cam- paigns is not a hindrance in the Election Cam- paign, as often adjudged by the Party, On the contrary, if properly carried through, it is a help. Through systematic work in each cam- paign it is possible to mobilize non-Party forces that could otherwise not be mobilized to help the Party in the election campaign. For in- stance, the struggle for unemployed insurance lay, enables the Party to make its appeal to the un- uth employed masses, who otherwise could not be ito drawn in to help a Communist election campaign da for support of the campaign for Unemployed In- role surance, And that is help to our election cam- ns. paign. Uu The same holds true with the Anti-Lynching on- Campaign. The Anti-Lynching Campaign is a ich feeder for the Election Campaign. It enables the and Party to win Negro and white masses for active ers’ support of the Anti-Lynching Campaign. And : that is support of our election campaign. Not Jess is this true of the Build the T. U. U. L. Cam- paign. The organizational and agitational efforts of this campaign against wage cuts, speed-up, etc., are an addition to the forces of the Election Campaign of the Party. The most important point in the turn of the Party is the approach of the masses of workers in the shops, mills, mines and factories. To direct the Party to efforts in the shops, mines and factories, it is necessary to discard the gen- eral phrases about concretization and detail work of the Party. Preaching of concretization must be replaced by concretization. We still find in our party too much of a desire to concentrate on spectacular record action. This is based on the erroneous theory that it is not the detailed organizational and agitational work that produces action, but that it is the noise and pose of action based on spontaneous mass The consequences of this erroneous approch evident throughout the Party. Party organ ss and speak in the most convincing terms about the concrete taks of organizing shop nuclei, But they do not organize them. Our revolutionary unions proclaim in glowing terms the necessity of organizing masses of the unor- ganized. But they do not organize them. Neither the Party nor the revolutionary unions have yet learned that the intention of cutting down a forest can be executed only by laying the axe to selected single trees. A forest can be cut down only tree by tree. We can conquer the shops only shop by shop. We can organize the work- ers only by organizing worker after worker. In approaching our election campaign through the above mentioned important campaigns of the Party for unemployment insurance, against lynching and for the building of the T. U. U. L., we must keep in mind the necessity of a full mobilization of the Party forces. In our organi- zation work we cannot approach the working class as a whole, but its individual members. Neither can the Party as a whole approach the workers for organization work. The party must approach the individual members of the working class through the individual members of the Party. The Party as a whole is represented in its program and manifestos, its literature and its press, but in its organization work among the masses of workers it is represented by every in- dividual Party member. If we consider our tasks from this point of view we will readily see that the gaining of new members, the activization of the Party, the politicalization of the work of the Party units must and will be the natural by-product of the turn decided upon at the Seventh Convention of our Party. Our Party members must stop embracing the whole working class and instead select ,an irf- dividual member of the working class for this embrace. Only thus can we help to achieve the activization of the Party members and at the same time organize a continuous recruiting cam- paign among the working masses. Only thus can we build the T. U. U. L. and the A. N. L. C. This individual approach must also be estab- lished between the Party leadership and the members. Instead of only talking to, propagan- dizing and directing the membership collectively, the leadership of the units, the section and the district must approach the individual rank and file members and the leaders in the lower com- mittees, to assign work to them, to advise, to hear reports, to convey experiences, to teach, to Inspire and to lead them. This approach of individual Party members by the leadership, and of the individual workers In the shops and factories by the Communist also solves the difficulty of many campaigns of the Party. In the course of the individual agitation carried on by the Party member he uses the material of all our campaigns successively to convince his fellow worker. After finding the special interest of the fellow worker, the Party member concen- trates on the campaign covering this interest. are If he works among Negro workers he will con- | centrate on the Anti-Lynching Campaign, never forgetting, however, the necessity of propagan- dizing the economic organization and the struggle against wage cuts, etc. But to the one cam- paign in which he finds the interest of the worker most keenly reflected he devotes his major attention. In order to arm our Party members with all possible arguments and material, and in order to enable them to benefit by the mutual experiences of the Party members, the unit meetings must become the place of discussion of these cam- paigns. The local issues connected with them must be analyzed in the unit meetings, And the experiences of the individual Party members gained in the campaign must be exchanged. By turning the unit meetings from their past dull routine to such function, the unit meetings will turn into sources of inspiration and guidance to the Party members in their work. Every Party unit must immediately select a shop or factory within its territory for social work. Where large industrial establishments employing thousans and tens of thousands of workers exist, the nuclei of a whole section must be concentrated tor work in such a shop. But the section or district must select on shop and work out a plan of campaign in that shop, as- signing to every available Party mewhber a specific task in this campaign. After the factory or establishment is selected, the campaign plan must be worked out, consid- ering the following needs: First, getting inside contacts. These contacts must be utilized for inside distribution of leaflets and factory papers. All factory papers must be especially prepared on issues growing out of the conditions of the workers in the shop or factory. Instead of phrases about the third period, shop papers and shop leaflets must deal with actual manifesta- tions of the third period, wage cuts, speed-up, etc., as they take place in the shop or industrial establishment. Inside connections must also be mobilized to get names and addresses of other workers working in the shop, Unemployed mem- bers or housewives, and such Party members that can be mobilized during the daytime, must be mobilized for leaflet distribution at noon hour and closing time. Wherever mass mobilization is possible, or where leaflet distribution is inter- fered with by police or factory guards, it is nec- essary that larger groups of Party members be mobilized to mix with the workers when they leave the factory, to start conversations with them, to walk home with them, to find out their reactions and secure their names and addresses. All names and addresses secured through inside connections, or by any other method, must be utilized by the sections or units for systematic and organized visits, All personal connections thus secured, all addresses, etc., must be utilized for generally agitating these workers, for win- ning these workers for the support of one or the other of our specific campaigns, for gaining sub- scribers to our press, for winning worker corre- spondents, for circulating the Liberator, the Labor Unity, etc. for the efforts to establish shop committees, and primarily for winning re- cruits to carry on the Party and the T. U. U. L. work within the factory or industrial establish- ment. The chief aim in this work at the present mo- THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN! ment is to penetrate the selected factory or es- tablishment with our election campaign. The more particular aim is to build into the factory an outpost of the T. U. U. L. and, if possible, a nucleus of the Party, But the work must be a continuous one and must not be considered a al mobilization for the election which may ontinued after that event, After the elec- tion campaign, the work will get-other concen- tration points, major campaigns, mass demon- strations, etc. This work can be successful only stematically organized and if the Party forces are concentrated instead of being dissi- pated, It is necessary ‘that only one factory in a ter- ritory or section be selected. It is necessary that all Party forces be mobilized and concentrated on this one factory. It is necessary that efforts become systematic and persistent for continuous action of the individual members, not merely for a single act. It is necessary that the Party en- gaged in work in a factory frequently discuss with all the comrades engaged in the work the progress, the experience, the difficulties, to de- vise new ways and means to extend effective methods and to stop ineffective methods, etc. In each factory or establishment special atten- tion must be paid by the leading Party committee to the particular conditions existing in the shop. All propaganda and agitation must be based upon these conditions, The Party members must be taught to talk to the workers, not primarily about China and India, but first of all about the factory and the conditions under which the workers work in the establishment. We must reverse our past practices in which our propaganda started out with the world and then concluded with the par- ticular. We must begin with the particular and from there lead the workers on to a revolutionary conception of the world. That cannot be done in one day. That cannot be done in one conver- sation. That cannot be done in one speech. That is a process developing in the course of the agi- tation and organization of the workers for struggle for immediate aims, On considering the particular conditions in the shop, it is of paramount importance also to con- sider the composition of the workers of the shop. If large sections of women workers are in the establishment, the women’s department must be mobilized to prepare the material especially adapted for this agitation. If the workers are primarily young workers, the Young Communist League must be drawn in and together with the Party the approach to these workers must be prepared in accordance with the specific problems of the young workers, If Negro workers work in the shop the Negro department must be drawn into this work and must be mobilized to prepare special material of agitation and propaganda. The A. N. L. C. must be called upon for the work in such factor! If large sections of foreign born workers are congregated in the establish- ment, the Language Fractions must be mobilized to facilitate the approach in language as well as to formulate issues, os for instance, the pro- tection of the foreign born, ete., which will facilf- tate the approach to these workers. All of this work must be organized on the basis of socialist competition. This competition pits nucleus against nucleus within the sections, sec- tions against sections within the districts, and districts against districts within the whole party. Unit and section Party correspondents must re- port about this work, its progress, its methods, in the Party life columns of our Party press, so that experience may be exchanged not only within single units, but within the Party as a | whole. The work in the factories, planned systemati- ¢ally and concentrated on single establishments is the paramount and all-overshadowing task of the Party. All efforts must be concentrated on this work. At the same time, however, we must not neglect other devices and methods of our campaign. The masses of Negro workers, for example, are segregated in certain sections of the cities. The most intense and anti-lynching campaign must be carried on in these sections. With the help of the artists and specially fitted comrades one or more floats can be constructed, ‘dramatizing the anti-lynching campaign, arousing hatred against the lynchers and bringing to the fore- ground the struggle of the Communist Party against lynching. Such a float may be used sev- eral times during the campaign to go through the Negro districts, Autos should be mobilized as the tail of the float decorated with banners, slogans against lynching, Jim Crowism, etc. Wherever such a parade is organized, as large masses of Party members as possible must\be mobilized to accompany the parade, not sitting in the autos, but walking on the sidewalks, along with the parade, mingling with the spectators, distributing leaflets among them, talking with them, selling literature wherever possible, and securing con- nections. All of such work must avoid generalizations and must lead the spectators to a specific con- clusion: Support the Communist Party; struggle for social and political equality and self-de- termination of Negroes; vote Communist; Join the ANLC and like conclusions, Where certain industries are congregated in certain street blocks and sections of the city, as for instance, the so-called clothing market in New York and Chicago, similar agitation can be organized in the form of parades, floats, leaflet distribution, etc., during noon hours and at the closing time. Comrades: Wage cuts are applied in all in- dustries throughout the country. Never have the workers needed more guidance; never was a militant organization more imperatively neces- sary for them than now. And conditions are constantly growing worse. Unemployment 1s increasing. Speed-up is intensified. Working conditions are worsened. In this situation the masses turn to our party. They expect organization and guidance from it. Our party can only give it if every party mem- ber turns into an active agent for our principles and an active organizer for revolutionary unions and for our party. Heed the warning words of Lenin: “No polit!- cal party, if it desires to avoid adventurist tactics can base its activities on expectations of out- bursts and complications. We must proceed along our road and steadily carry out our sys- tematic work. And the less we count on the unexpected, the less likely are we to be taken by surprise by any unexpected turn.” Forward to systematic work in the shops! CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. S. A. Judge McGeehan, Greco-Carillo Prosecutor Helps Labor Racketeers Loot Taxi Union By ALLEN JOHNSON been thrown to the ground, dragged many functions of the Hall. The | with half of New York's judiciary, (This is the eleventh in the ths of articles on Tammany fall). strike in the metropolitan district has to be convinced that Tammany Hall is a huge strikebreaking or- ganization. No worker on the picket line who has had his head battered by a cowardly, overfed cop need be’ told that the police department i the first line of defense of every wage-cutting, slave-driving factory » in New York, The instance of the Interborough subway strike in 1926 can be dupli- cated a thousandfold. When the strikers issued from a hall where they had held a meeting, they were met by the police industrial and strong arm squads, who blackjacked ‘ kicked them, after they had No worker who has ever gone on]. them into doorways where their noses were broken and teeth kicked out and chased them for blocks. The police thugs took but one prisoner. He had slaved for the I, R. T. for more than ten years, was the father of four children and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross during the war for helping J. P. Morgan collect his war debts, He was so brutally beaten that he had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance, While he lay on his hospital bed he was informed that he was charged with resisting an officer. He was car- ried to the courtroom, found guilty of the accusation and then trans- ported back to the hospital, where he had plenty of time to think over the real function of police in capitalist society. Strikebreaking 1s but one of the gangsters who are on the payroll of every A. F. of L, local in New York, helping corrupt offictals, control the unions as if they were their personal property, couldn’t exist for a day if the police wanted to interfere. But if the police were to interfere with crooks they wouldn't be police, and the sooner workers realize that they must control their own unions the sooner will they evict their corrupt officials; by force if necessary, and it probably will be necessary for the cops will always ¢ome to the aid of their collagues, the labor racketeers. As good an example as any of la- bor racketeering is the group com- monly called the Bronx Arson Ring. One of the shining lights of this ring 1s Paul Vaccarelli, convicted cunman, rum-runner, gang leader, and friend of Gov, Roosevelt and Mayor Walker, both of whom, along accepted an invitation to attend one of Vaccarelli’s dinners a few months ago. The Arson Ring would require builders to submit their specifications to a “survey board” comprised of the Ring's gunmen. The board would estimate how much they wanted the job to cost and would then add 25 percent to the total amount for them- selves. Workers Often Assaulted If the builders would. refuse to pay the prescribed graft, the buildings they were constructing would be burned just before they were com- pleted. There are many charred me- mentos of the ring’s activities still standing in the Bronx today, In addition to setting fire to houses to bring independent builders in line, the Independents would find that their workers were being threatened American Sailor’s Story of His Trip In Soviet Union Have Interesting and and Get Many New Ideas of Workers’ and Peasants’ State | Visit to Dairy Run by 700 Women Modernity efficiency is the The government them what assistance they need —financial, technical and advisory. Otherwise they are left entirely to themsely It hardly seemed pos- sible for so many women to be living and and working together so harmoni- ously, yet they were doing it! The farm comprised 10,000 acres, given over to truck farming, cattle breeding and poultry raising. Two large in- cubators, recently installed, one a well-known American make, the other an exact duplicate of it, but Russian made, were hatching out their second batch of chic The eggs were selected ones furnished by the government. Eighty per cent of the first batch had proved fertile, and only 2 per cent of the chicks had died. Not bad for a beginning. The brooding houses were spotlessly clean and there were some 30,000 half-grown chickens, mostly Leg- horns and Wyandottes, scampering around the place. De were asked if we could suggest any improvements, the girls candidly admitting their inexperience, but they were eager to learn, Not being poultry-minded, we weren't of much tance, but what we could and did do was to advise them how they could improve their water supply. A centrifugal pump which supplied water from the river for irrigating ses was not functioning at full . It was a pleasure to be able to explain to them just why it wasn’t, and what steps should be taken to remedy the defect. We were informed that one-half‘of the total cultivated area in the country was now organized into collective farms. If they are all operating as succe: fully as the ones we visited, Russia will soon be leading the world in agriculture, When we came to Salisk that night on our return trip it was with a feel- ing of regret. We had seen so much to interest us, but our time was so limited we had barely scratched the surface of things. A crowd wa sembled at the depot to bid us bon voyage, and several of the gangs were so loathe to leave the place they had to be forcibly dragged aboard the train. Some of us just did manage to make it as it was puffing out, and found ourselves in a day coach in- stead of the sleeper with the rest of the gang. This turned out to be one of those fortunate accidents which sometimes occur, Inside the coach were forty-six young people of both Surprising Experiences, factory workers from Moscow who were traveling down to shores of the Black Sea for their | vacation. A more jol crowd couldn't be imagined. were traveling to Norovassisk first, so our return journey promised to be a lively one. We were the first Americans they had ever seen out- side of the movies, and I think that they were just as much interested in us as e were in them. Out came the stringed instruments, and the night was spent in singing. those people could sing! How | | were entitled to one month's annual vacation, Free railroad transporta- tion and living accommodation and eighty roubles expense money. | The former summer resorts and | | houses of the old aristocracy owned by the government and over to the workers. Our tra nions were bound only twenty This tur: | fortunate for us. We | firmly attached to each other on the | train that we were invited to spend the following week-end with them as | ven eling comp miles from me so their guests. I the pleasant memories of that week-end will ues with most of us for a long time. isn’t often that a sailor has the | chance to make genuine friends in a foreign country, especially when ig- norant of the language. During our visit to Gillingjig we met delegations from all parts of the country, even | as far off as Leningrad Russia’s Future | In the conversations we had with all of them one fact became ap- parent, Russia, especially Russia, is forging rapidly Gone is the Russia of Tolstoi’'s era. From present indications, it won't be | long before the country sits place among the foremost nations of the earth, The ambitious plans of the viet Government deserves praise; but when these plans are realized most credit must be given to the people themselves. People who, left in possession of a country as barren as a wilderness ten years ago, and with practically no assistance from the outside world, display such cheerfulness, energy, determination and enthusiasm, and are completely transforming themselves from being with death and were being beaten up regularly. Twelve million dollars’ worth of buildings have been burned in the last two years, at least $10,000,000 more has been collected in graft, and $75,000,000 additional has gone for exorbitant building costs. Whenever a building went up in flames as a result of a builder's re- fusal to pay off the ring, the Bronx District Attorney's office was as agi- tated as a cat chasing its tail, al- though the total effect was pretty much the same. McGeehan, the dis- trict attorney, was recently elevated to the Supreme Court bench for “rushing to defend the people's safe- ty.” Just how much McGeehan can be expected to aid ‘the people” he and his capitalist brethren love so much before election time, may be determined by his handling of a re- cent guit involving the Amalgamated Taxi Association, Gangsters and Officers Combine The Amalgamated Taxi Association was organized eight years. ago by a few cab drivers who owned their own cars. It has grown so that it now has about 1,200 members enrolled on its books, As the association grew it de- veloped all the characteristics of a typical A. F, of L. local, The treas- ury grew fat, the officers became cor- rupt, gangsters began to appear at meetings to aid the officers jam through measures that would accrue to the officers’ financial benefit, and both officers and gangsters were soon in league to systematically rifle the treasury, A factional fight: that starte@ over the manner in which the association's insurance company should be run led to a demand by 95 percent of the members that the officers render an accounting of the $153,000 which had been collected in dues since the in- ception of the uhion. The demand was refused. Mike Donnella, the lone officer who decided to throw his lot with the members, now led the fight to force an accounting. A firm of certified public accountants was picked at random from the telephone book and discovered that $146,000 of the $152,000 collected was missing and unaccounted for. The members of the association thereupon went to the state attorney general and lodged a complaint against their officers, excluding only Donnella, Edward O’Brien, attorney for the officers, told the attorney general, in effect, to go to hell. O'Brien knew what he was doing. He was formerly a Tammany District Leader—in the very same district, as a matter of fact, that is now the pri- vate hunting ground of Commissioner of Licenses Geraghty, than whom there is no more efficient crook in Tammany Hall. an Aids Gangsters ed at the next meeting—he had first stationed more than 150 gunmen around the meet ng hall—with a “show éause” order signed by none other than that same McGeehan, now Supreme Court Justice, who had 80 virtuously belabored the Bronx Arson Ring while he wi District Attorney. The burden of proof now lay on the members of the association, who had been cold-bloodedly robbed of their $146,000, The case is still hang- ing fire in the courts, McGeehan’'s court included. It is only coincidental that Su- preme Court Justice McGeehan, while district attorney, tried with all his might to get a death sen- tence for Greco and Carillo, anti- fascist workers he tried to ri road on a charge of killing two fascists who were stabbed in a clash with anti-fascists? Is it the most backward of the white races to the equal of any. (The End) only coincidental that Justice McGeehan, who is helping his friend O'Brien loot the Amalga- mated Taxi Assn. of $146,000, kept on demanding at the Greco- Carillo trial, the death chai by Christmas. In the death chair by Christmas?” (Labor racketeers will be concluded | in Monday's article) | HOOVER SPEAKS TO FAT BANKERS (Continued from page 1) bankers and exploiters you serve‘so well, that you have ordered for the 8,000,000 unemployed who starve in every city of the United States! Hoover knows this winter there will be more than 9,000,000 jobless demanding and fighting for bread, for unemployment insurance, Hence | he orders for them a foretaste of the relief the bosses will offer them. | Chilly Reception Hoover arrived in Cleveland parad- ing behind troops of soldiers and police, that had been mobilized to batter down the werkers, He got a chilly reception the crowd yelled, “To hell with Hoove} ployment insur bankers’ hall, thousands were gath- ering, listening to the speeches of the Communists, exposing Hoover and capitalist prosperit The crowd of 5,000 surged on to | Public Hall, Hoover and his army | of secret service agents had mobilized over 600 police and firemen. ‘They were given orders to club mercilessly. When the 5,000 unemployed reached the dark and comparatively isolated street which leads to Public Hall the motorcycle and mounted police swooped down on them. The motor- cyéle cops flooded the street with gas and smoke. ‘The workers fought back and held out for fifteen minutes against the heavy clubbings. They Surge on Hall The workers were particularly bit- ter over the treachery of the labor fakers of the Cleveland Federation of Labor, who called off the picket line at the Cleveland Hotel, where Hoover put up for the day. The workers were out on strike against the wage- cuts. In order not to embarrass the chief wage-cutter, the A. F. of L. fascist leaders called off the strikers. How- ever, the pickets organized by the Trade Union Unity League carried placards in front of the hotel de- nouncing Hoover as the ‘chief scab. They were cheered by thousands of workers, Mount Machine Guns Soldiers were mobilized with drawn bayonets to keep the unemployed back from presenting their demand to the office boy of the “59” rich Wall Street rulers. Over 50 national guard were placed on roofs with machine guns pointing down into the streets. Another mass demonstration will “greet” Hoover when he speaks be- fore the two leading fascist leaders in Boston Monday at the conventions of the American Federation of Labor and the American Legion, which meet simultaneously, jagain g1 We secured | « the services of an interpreter, and | through him made ourselves ac- quainted with all the latest news| from Moscow. The factory workers re now | held up their banners reading “De- mand Unemployment Insurance,” ‘We Want Jobs,” “Down With Hoover!” “Organize nd Strike Against Wage Cuts!” “Vote Com- | munist!” Page Five Admits France Is Driving to New World Slaughter PARIS, Oct. 2,—Political unrest is ipping France as a reper- cussion of the German elections, as well as the rapid extension of the world economic crisis to this coun- rhe reactionary forces are lining up their ranks and coming out openly with the slogan of preparations for war. Briand has been carrying on precisely this policy, but under the more subtle phrases of “peace” and ‘economic unity of Europe.” “We are heading straight toward ar,” writes Bertrand de Jouvenal, one of the leading French politicians. He points out that all steps taken in | France were aimed toward war. E protests, however, that war prepara- tions have been too slow to please him. He goes on to write; in his | icle entitled “War! “Iam sorry for those statesmen who, when new Killing begins, will | have before these millions of new dead no other excuse than that we lid not begin i De Je 1 sees the wrecking of the ing war TIED DEPUTIES DEMAND YOUNG PLAN STOPPAGE Ask Big Tax for Rich to Pay Unemployed step closer.” (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Oct. 2—The Agrarian Landvolk Party demands a right wing government with the inclusion of the fascists, refusing to support a government with Socialist particf- pation or backing. The Communist Reichstag faction is demanding the stoppage of Young Plan payments and th® striking out of Reichswehr (Republican army) expenses, as well as expenditures for police civil war armaments, It de- mands a special 20 per cent. million- aire tax, a 20 per cent. dividend tax, a 20 per cent, tax on directorial fees, a 20 per cent. tax on incomes of over 50,000 marks. It demands the cut- ting down of high salaries and pen- sions and the withdrawal of ex- penses for church censorship, as well as withdrawal of support to the ar- bitration and strikebreaking organ- ization, all of which makes a total of 7,150,000 marks saving. ‘Agrarian League Fears Peasants’ Revolution ‘A, Oct, 2.—Gloom surrounds the delegates to the Agrarian League conference of the League of Nations which has been taking place-during the past few days. The East Euro- pean delegates talk openly of fears of revolution, due to the agrarian crisis. Many references to the Soviet Union’s advances in grain producing were made by the representatives of the rich kulaks in Rumania and Hungary, an steel cartel as bring- | CUGAN STUDENT DIES OF WOUND: UNREST DEEPE Machado Tightens His Fa cist Grip HAVANA, Oct. 2, — One o' students who was shot by Machad bloody police several days ago, a clash between students and co died yesterday. At the same tir Machado stated he would str I his dictatorship, and clamp dowr press censorship (which has existed), as well as withdraw ¢ stitution rights (which never {n Cuba). Pa rau, a railroad worker ¥ was involved in the demonstrat | and was wounded is at death’s do Machado declared that the demc stration was “the work of Commi ists who succeeded in inflaming few students.” He kept quiet ab the seething unrest among masses who are starving to des and said nothing. about the wi crisis Cuba is undergoing in its I to’ exis Washington is sitting on pins a | needles hoping the Machado regi doesn’t blow up, as it will complic imperialist domination in the Cari bean. All of. Machado’s acts carefully supervised by Stimson a |the murders of workers and pea ants meets with the direct approv of the Americ Mussolini : Blabbers About Economic Crisi Mussolini's publicity agent for tl New York Times, Arnaldo Cortesi, i Rome correspondent, cables a cox and bull story about Mussoli: “pledging to work to avoid war Mussolini, feeling the ground crun bling beneath his feet, and trying t cover up his rapid war preparation conecocts a speech for foreign cor sumption, For the first time Mussolini admi the corroding effect of the econom crisis on the Fascist regime, but ¢ an excuse points out that the enti capitalist world is in a crisis, “N intelligent or honest man can expec miracles,” yelled Mussolini. “Up t today not even President Hoover he been able to work miracles.” Th: the crisis will last a long time admitted by the chief black shi “The passage from the present st to one of comparative prosperity,” 1 said with crossed fingers, “is a cycl which will require at least thre years,” and he added “if war doesn break out before then.” last inch. They realize that the Five Year Plan: in the Soviet Union i pointing the way out for the oppresse peasants in these lands, and they ca upon the bigger imperialist natior to speed the war against the worker: fatherland. Madgearu of Rumania was especi ally open in his talk about “revolt tion,” unless the more powerful im perialist nations “saved” these back ward states. He said the choice la between the United States, Canad: and Argentina risking 15 per cent o their grain exports or courting revo- who squeeze the poor peasants to thelution in Eastern Europe. U. S. Union. Celebrations in Moscow, tania, and Oct. WORLD TOURISTS, Inc., Algonquin 6656 Tickets All necessary visas and LAST CALL! for Witnessing the November Celebrations in You can still join one of the groups leaving for the Five-Year-Plan-Tour across the Soviet They will witness the November SPECIAL PRICES HURRY-—Sailing Oct. 15,S. S. Maure- Ask for Particulars 5. R. Leningrad 25, S. S. 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