The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1930, Page 4

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Central Committee points to the im- nce of the ing Freiheit” for the in working class in their struggles, ularly of the masses of Je Morning | and others. ht against d The “Morning Fr gly fought the destruc’ alist party among the ith the Trade Union | heit” has influence masses. ure of that d the role gainst Jew- | ish nationalism among the working class. It has fought against Zionism as the ally of T BY CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST U.S.A. lism. It is combatting the class-col- on idea in the field of culture. It is nationalist influence of lofty idealism or The “Morning s instrum genizing mass of the like the clubs and the Jewish section The In- ‘y possibil- tion embrac- workers. The its readers T Pp rian dic- nd of building up’ Socialism under ear Plan. The “Morning Freiheit” ng in every struggle of the work- in a leading capaci It is rallying the workers for a struggle against imperialism, against the war danger. It is mobilizing for persecution of immi- t workers, against the attacks on the So- Union, and on the revolutionary workers country. work the “Morning Freiheit” meets the unscrupulous and base attacks of powerful end most leous organ of International, the Jewish Daily which does not shrink before spy the use of guorillas to harm the labor movement, and which is gholds of reaction among the reasons that the “Morning to be and is dear to the heart cious worker. Without the ” many of the struggles of have been almost impossible, y others couldn’t have reached the propor- they have reached. Without the “Morn- Freiheit,” the Jewish workers would be gely to the poisonous influence of the on the one hand, of the national ts on the other. Aid for the “Morning Freiheit” is aid for the rovolutionary labor movement. Aid for the “Morning Freiheit” is a blow to capitalism. Let every worker do his duty in aiding the revolution fighter, the Communist “Morn- g e the “Morning Freiheit!” TENTRAL COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY USA. Class Differences On Farms and Communist Tasks By HARRISON GEORGE «(An excerpt from the Agrarian Report to the Seventh Convention of the Communist Party of the U. S. A.) | | ete * Article No. 3 QE of the results of class differentiation on farm has been a growth in proletarian- This has two phases: one, an out- f the farm population to the proleterians, the other, a ive “weight” of wage labor, prole- labor, among the toiling masses on the farms. We sce, for example, since 1910 to Jan- uary, d 1929, according to U. S. estimations, e been losses, absolute net losses to | population of 4,500,000. What is the of this flight? It reveals, of course, ng degradation of the poor farmers. | e to make a living or evicted from | , go to the citics and become prcle- Seme become semi-proletarians, of z g in the farm population but class relations by working part for wages. Others who go to the farm workers, wage workers, and | to speak about this, because there is | ome gon: : ” make a distinction between those “Working on Home Farm” and those “Work- ing Out.” in an article a comrade speaks of “four and a half million farm wage workers.” This ecmrade razy play around with millions, but go out to organize them we must be relists, and we must say there are no 4,500,000 proletarians, because only those who | are “working out’—on scmebody else’s farm— | and for wages, are really proletarians. There’s a Difference. The others “working on home farm” cer- tainly work on farms, and they may or may e getting wages—often not—and their tions may be bad indeed. But they will strike against their parents. They are not tarians in the Marxian sense of the word. course if we do not mean really to organize ariat, we might agree with this more or less. But because we must earn- try to organize this most exploited sec- tion of the proletariat, we must at least know what a proletarian is. Vom 1910 to 1920 (we must wait for the present census to give us exact later data) the veal iarm proletariat, those “working out” fell from’ 2,636,966, to 2,055,276, a decrease of about one-fifth; while in the same time those “svorking on home farm” fell nearly one-half, or from $3,310,534 to 1,850,119. Besides showing the impoverishment of the | poor farmers, whose sons leave the farms be- cause their labor is unpaid, this has a con- notation of showing the heavier “weight of proletarians” on the farms. that there are 10 per cent of the farming popu- lation who, though they live on the farms, are wh was 2, or toss up a coin, on the idea that | ‘~¢ make any difference-—a couple of mil- | It is also said | WE AGITATE I working in the nearby small towns as prole- ‘tarians or semi-proletarians. The discontent of the agrarian masses visible. “farm relief.” It is reflected in the wave of lynchings in the South. What do the capi- talists propose as a “solution?” They say to the farmer: If you mechanize, then you reduce ts and catch up with industry. But how the can the farmer mechanize, when he can’t w even $10 to buy a coat, even when he owns outright a big farm of @20 acres—as is the in Montana. And if he can borrow dees mechanize, it only sharpens the gen- eral differentiation. Lacking capital, he is into the clutches of finance capital, nd in the crisis situation goes bankrupt, be- comes worse enslaved. The Farm Board’s Role. About the Farm Board, It was created and given a half billion dollars as a “revolving fund.” Jt hasn’t revolved very well, and has gotten the government, as far as the govern- nt is concerned, into difficulties. Essen- ly, this amount lest by the government. is ibution to aid finance capital gain con- rol of agriculture through monopoly in mar- ie ns to farm “cooperatives” ‘uction corporations but tions. These “cooperatives,” ed by “subsidiary” organ- ed by finance capital, are the great- of the poor farmers, their present Rich farmers lead the poor is The arm Board aids the “cooperatives,” but only if they first get into the clutches of the banks; the Board supplements bank loans. These “cooperatives” are not for, and are no gocd for the poor farmers in any sense; they are against the poor farmers. They are good only for finance capital primarily, with the wealthy farmer getting some possible benefit secondarily and incidentally. It was hoped that without cost to the goyernment thus to help rivet finance capital on agriculture as a e. It has aided finance capital to do t, but the deepening crisis, the direct pur- y the l'arm Board of wheat and the fol- e in prices has cost the govern- thing. So some of the other sec- ons of the bourgeoisie are squawking. i believe that the Draft Agrarian Thesis deals very thoroughly with the role of these lied “cooperatives.” Under capitalism ‘y #ze an illusion to the poor farmers, who ‘st be shown the example of the Soviet Union and taught that only after the oyver- throw of capitalist rule will farmers’ produc- tive cocpezatives really aid them. (The posi- tion of the Consumers’ Cooperative is some- whet different.) The role of the “Farm Bloc,” of this fake parliamentary “opposition” has also been to aid finance capital in getting its grip on agriculture: through the “cooperatives.” The Farm Bloc has enthusiastically pushed propaganda for Hoover’s plan of “coopera- | tives” among the farmers. The “Farm Bloc.” Our Party has sufficient experience in It is seen in all the discussion about | NEWS ITEM: The Citizen’s Union endorses 16 candidates of the three capitalist parties for the state ticket. —BY BURCK analyzing the real role of bourgeois “opposi- tions” to know that the “Farm Bloc Opposi- tion” is an aid to finance capital. I think we have made clear that it is no aid, can be no aid, to the poor and medium farmer. Our Central Committee Plenum last October gave the correct analysis from which we should draw conclusions for action. It was given in our Draft’ Agrarian Thesis precisely for that reason (Page 267, April Communist), in part as follows: “The ‘progressivism’ of the Farm Bloc, with its denial of class struggle on the farm, with its subordination to the essential program of finance capital, has become one ‘of the accepted and established agencies of the rule of Wall Street. It is no longer an expression of the growing consciousness of the toiling agrarian masses, or even a par- tial and confused expression, but is one of the means of diverting and suppressing this , rowing consciousness and will to struggle.” Great discontent is ahead, and, comrades, we must take advantage of this in our election campaign, not to stimulate new illusions in the poor farmers as to parliament and the Farm Bloc opposition, but rather to tear away parliamentary illusions which are the t be le obstacle to getting the agrarian poor into really revolutionary mass action. (To Be Continyed) Statement on Barring the Young Pioneers From the Mails The “Young Pioneer,” the only workers’ chil- drer’s paper in the United States has been barred from the mails by the bosses’ govern- ment agents in the United States Post Office Department. They state openly that the rea- son they are barring the “Young Pioneer” from the mails is because of the “contents of the August issue.” This is a very open statement. In other words the bosses through their gov- ernment, are saying to the workers’ children: “We don’t want you to learn anything about your class, the workingclass. We want you to grow up to be good loyal strike breakers, and loyal slaves. We want you to grow up to be cannon fooder so that when we call upon you to go into a war to defend our billions you will do so. We want you to bow before the bosses’ flag, church, God and never to ask any ques- tions. We don’t want you to help your fathers and mothers in a fight against unemployment, ,against speedup, for unemployment relief, for more wages, for shorter hours, for better living conditions. We don’t want you to tell your fathers and mothers to Vote Communist.” Behind this attack’ of the Post Office agents of the Washington boss government can be seen the hand of the fascist Fish Committee. The bosses as symbolized by the red baiting com- mittee tremble to think that the American work- er’s child is being won for the class of his parents, the workingclass. It is Significant that the attack i launched on the paper of the Pioneers, the “Young Pioneer,” the fighting voice of the worker’s children. This is only the that the attack is launched on the paper of the zations and on the entire press of the revolu- tionary workingclass. ~ , This attack upon the militant workers’ chil- dren is only part of the general campaign in full swing against the Soviet Union as mani- fested by the fake scare that the fascists have begun in connection with the sale of Russian wheat. We must answer these attacks by strengthening our work of organizing the ‘work- ers and their children for a militant struggle against the unbearable conditions that are at present existing for the masses. The millions of workers and their children will not allow themselves to starve. They will rally behind the Communist Party and the Young Commun- N THE SHOPS By BEN HARPER. (Continued) Among the many mistakes committed in the past as to our understanding of the organiza- tion of the children, there was a very bad one committed in connection with the utilization of Party auxiliaries. For example, the W.LR, and the L.S.U. We thought that the children organized by these organizations should be used as an auxiliary to the Pioneers. Again we were mechanically following the line of the Party and League incorrectly, in thinking that we needed “transmission belis” to our Pioneers. We did not realize that this was one of the clearest expressions of our sectarianism. We could not understand that the organization of children by these orgenizations should be the order of the day, as part of building the revolu- tionary children’s movement, which would em- brace these organizations and the Pioneers equally. At present, we can say that we have a correct picture of this question. We will utilize every method and possibility of reach- ing the masses of children. The Party has many mass organizations, which have influ- ence ever masses of workers, who have chil- dren who are not as yet in the revolutionary children’s movement. We say to these or- ganizations, “it is your job to organize these children. You must devote the best possible forces for the organization of the children. The Young Communist League will help you, and together we will establish a united lead- ership. over the revolutionary children’s movement.” Such organizations as the trade unions of the ’T.U.U.L., the LL.D., the L.S.U,, the W.LR., the language schocls, women’s organizations, etc., must participate in the building of the children’s organization. We ist League.in fighting for work or wages. The coming elections will give the masses of work- ers a chance to answer the attacks upon the workers’ children, against the terrific speedup and unemployment. They will rally behind the Communist Party and will vote Communist in the coming elections. : The Young Communist League calls upon all workers and young workers to answer this attack upon our revolutionary children’s move- ment. We must answer the attack of the fas- cist Fish and his equals by making the Young Pioneers of America into a mass organization of workers’ and farmers’ children! Every worker and young worker must help build our children’s movement by getting his or her child to join the Young Pioneers and by becoming a leader of a Young Pioneer group. We must answer the attack on the fighting workers’ children paper the “Young Pioneer” by making the 7th Anniversary issue, the No- vember, issue the biggest and best issue put out by the Pioneers in the last 7 years. Down with the Fish Committee! Defeat the attacks of the Boss Government and its Post Office agents! Hail the 7th Anniversary of the “Young Pioneer!” Forward to a Mass Revolutionary Children’s Movement, build the YOUNG PIONEER! NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE USA. PRE-PLENUM DISCUSSION Young Communist League, U.S.A. Are We to Win the Proletarian Children? should utilize all this influence to build a real children’s movement, and not allow ourselves to continue on the old perspective of small, sectarian groups. It can readily be seen, that in order to bring about this basic change in our children’s or- ganization, there must be a drastic reorganiza- tion of the present leadership of our children’s movement. Until now, the task of leading the children was considered by the Party entirely in the hands of the Y.C.L. This continued to the extent that the Party was hardly aware and conscious of the situation that constantly existed. There is no denying that the Party always recognized the need for the organiza- tion. of the children, but it never thought of the need of assisting directly in the leadership of the children’s movement. Now the matter is clear, without a broad leadership of adults, besides the youth, there cannot be the pos- sibility of transforming our organization into amass movement. Until now, even the Y.C.L. very badly neglected the leadership of the children. This was manifested in most cases by the fact that some of the politically wéak- est and raw elements, were assigned for this work, usually of a poor social composition. Instead of realizing the importance of its fask, and getting young, capable proletarians to lead in this work, the League in most cases gave some of the weakest end poorest comrades. If such an attitude on the part of the Party and League will continue, we cen n recognize our-children’s movement. If we to intro- duce these new methods and activities we will have to utilize all of the comrades in the Party, League, and among the sympathetic elements to assist in these tasks. We must get the mass organizations of the Party, to organize the children with a leadership for them from among *their membership. We must involve as many adult comrades, parents, that have abil- ity, in the preparing of material and the lead- ing of the groups both directly and indirectly, through committces to be formed in the dis- tricts and the sections throughout the country. Just as the Boy Scouts and other bourgeois organizations of children, utilize doctors, en- gineers, military officers, etc., to help them in their work, we must reach all class cons- cious, sympathetie individuals and get them to cooperate in the building of our revolutionry children’s Organization. The crying need for the cooperation of the parents of our children is most clearly seen when we note the attacks of the. capitalists upon our children’s movement. Regardless of how sfnall and sectarian we have been until now, such men as Fish and his investigating committee are very conscious of how effective ‘we may become, Such examples as the attacks on the children’s camps in Van Etten, N. Y., Detroit and California, are examples of how the bosses “appreciate” our organization. The sentencing and the imprisonment of Harry Eisman for 5% years for his brave and con- sistent militancy as a Pioneer could never have occurred if the Party and the movement as a whole, realized the importance of helping in the building of a strong children’s movement. The job now is to find out whether or not the Party and its mass organizations will co- operate in the building and development of our children’s movement. If we understand the im- For ‘the Communist Ticket! Against Mass Layoffs and W: | z By JORGE emcee! Let’s Discover America! } When the Santa Maria, just. 438 years ago, sighted the shores of the New World, old Christopher Colombo was letting us in for a lot of trouble. Beating Cal Coolidge for brevity of history, we'll remind you that: since then, though the biped Genus Homo Europo has settled all over both continents, a Yankee egoism has been in- sisting that only that part between Canada and the Rio Grande is “America.” Vestiges of this linger in the ranks of the Communist Party. And even worse, here in District 2, too many comrades have the gen- eral impression that the western boundary of the United States is about four miles west of Hoboken. ‘ In fact many NewCMFWYPemfwypahrdlsh the idea that they have a corner on knowledge, ~though some of them have to think twice to recall whether potatoes grow on trees and whether hens each lay an even dozen eggs every day directly into sealed boxes. Some of this cockshure ignorance persists in our Party. For example, the Workers School, intended to teach Party members a number of things and particularly to train them to take responsible posts not only in New York but even out among the Indians and cowboys around Pittsburgh, finds that out of nearly a thousand pupils, about ninety per cent are workers who are not yet members of the Party and hence are not convinced that there is nothing left for them to learn. The longer they are mem- bers the more sure they know everything— though they can’t cake first base on the ABC, Probably our needle trades comrades who have been making mistakes successfully for years and trying to escape censure by saying “We simply don’t understand the line,” can tell us why studying the things they don’t un- derstand is beneath their dignity. Again, the Daily Worker has pleaded and urged that Party members line up and learn something about Latin America, not merely so they won’t be caught saying that Buenos Aires is in Venezuela, but so they can be given a training on specific Latin American prob- lems, a ticket to Guatemala or Guayaquil and instructions to be of some real aid to the colonial revolution instead of vegetating around here, reading Red Sparks, eating at the Coop, and other vices. But though the Daily pleaded with tears in its inky eyes for both volunteers and con« scripts to take the Latin American course, no+ body much is interested. i Meanwhile waving palm trees, tinkling guit- ars and a lot of revolutionary situations are going to waste in El Salvador, Havana, Cara- cas and way points, a lot of Newyok Commu- nists are acting like so many cats, stuck on the old house and refusing to move to a new place—as though this miserable Manhattan is- land was the center of the universe. Let’s discover America—all of it! * He * Contributed Dear Red Sparks: It was called to my at- tention that Michael Gold (our own Mike, himself) was seen leisurely promenading past 12th Street and Fifth Avenue, with nothing short (no pun intended) of a cane in his hand. The comrale who noticed him was not per- sonally acquainted with him, and so felt too awed to ask Mike whether he was hurt in some accident and needed support of the cane. Now he might write a little story called “A Jew With Some Royalties.”—A Comrade. P. S.: He really might have had an acrident, though likely not a physical one. ae eee ee Liberating the Mind “This unparalleled rise of the American man and woman . .. sprang from ideas and ideals, which liberated the mind.”—Hoover. “Dr. Caroline Martin, in charge of the hos- pital census, who emphasized the fact that 2,508 more pstients were submitted to the psychopathic division at Bellevue alone in the first six months of this year than were ad- mitted in 1928 during the samme period. “The Commissioner added that he would be at a loss to explain the increase were it not for the fact that the fear of unemployment was actually driving people to worry until they became mentally’ il .”—N. Y. Times, Sept. 14. * be The Sad Case of Texas Texas Guinan, we are informed, is full of enthusiasm for the “socialist” party, and want- ing to do her bit for the downtrodden lawyers and delicatessen storekeepers on Heywood Broun’s beat, arranged an “evening” at her “night club” whereat Broun was to speak. All the delirium and most of the tremens were gathered in from miles around, more or less succumbed to climatic condition, ’tis true, byt still eble to listen to the bearer of the message of gin and emancipation. ; Alas, the speaker of the evening was re- ported to be tod lit up to appear and clink glasses with the audience. So the only thing left was to have another one—but not on the house. This was about as pathetic an affair as when Heywood Broun appeared in udeville, starring in the same show with Rin Tin Tin, Surely, here’s where we sympathize with dogs, portance of this work, then we will be able to correct our mistakes, and build anew. If we do not, then we are consciously surrender- ing the masses of children into the hands of the bourgeoisie, to be trained as strikebreakers and cannon-fodder. The proletarian children must become part of the great army of the working class mobilized for the fight against capitalism. The proletarian children will be among the most courageous fighters in this struggle, and will be a constant source of ine spiratign for the entire working class movee ment. Every Party and League member, every worker, must accept responsibility for the building of a mass revolutionary children’s movement in the U. S. A, For Bread and Work! R! Cuts! Against Impe- tie