The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1931, Page 4

ote Yorker’ Porty U.S.A. By mail everywhere: One year. of Manhattan and Bronx, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 36; six months, 83: New: York City. Foreign: Published by the Comproaaily Publishing Co. Inc.. 4ally, except Sunday, at 8¢ Ease Page Four 18th Street. New York City, N. Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable: “DAIWORK." ai Ac SS and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 60 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥, Central Ob cal “A 7499 HICAGO RAILROAD WORK: | “At ™ ry (By a Worker Correspondent) sational elections ever held in this lodge. Car- | ¢ N December and North West- | ter is noted for his letter-writing ability and spy ain of salt,’ nt in is began, ffected by the been back at were er e thousand worker ork ree days per vage barely su » keep the Under tc ous Hoover y: «tituted. by the North Western bosses, laborers we been 2 per week, mechanics’ help- »$ $13.20-$1 1d mecnanics $19.20 for the ree days’ work Many cases of ress have come to the no- e of forem officials, but no- ing has be! to remedy conditions. The ed a fake charity plan by mpan: 2 of one-half of one ages ostensibly for e mulcted r cent of t e relief o' g aas bee an was anno 2 which 1 0 “snooping squads,” com- of company officials, f destitute workers, red as to why wi the homes aff sed of we invaded ‘ied into re fam jot put away something for 2 rainy uay, why cheaper quarters were not ob- ined, eic., etc. but an investigation by the op nucleus of the Communist Party has re- aled that in none of these cases was sub- antial relief furnished. The mechanics and helpers employed by the t orth Western railroag are organized into the rious shop crafts of the Railyway Employees 2partment of the American Federation of L: r. The fa who head the System Feder: on here, 4 1 as the International official- om, have gone along with the company in its ery attempt to crush the workers The business age: f the unions have act asisted in putting over the “stagger system ad in carrying through.the,plans of the bosses w a more intensive speed-up program. They ave openly endorsed the fake relief drive with qe full knowledge that no worker h y 3 to the directing of the campaign and spend- ‘ag of money collected from the workers’ ‘pay avelopes. This condition is fast bringing about revolt in the ranks of the union membership hich threatens the control of the fak Early. in December two important local unions “eld elections and in both these the reaction- Ties, stool p' rs were swept from vffice. The machinists handed a terrific lam- »vasting to the Lukas gang of stool-pizeons when Itto Lukas, who controlled the lodge for seven "ears, went down to defeat in the contest for imancial secretary. His cronies suffered like ireatment in the race ‘or other important offices. Only one Lukas lickspittle, Sid Bloom, candidate for shop stew- ard, survived the onslaught. The latter, elected with the assistance of company bosses and busi- aess agents, has an unsavory record and at the last district convention failed to take the floor progressive an jm behalf of aimself with mitted by ad measures, contenting “aye” vote on a resolution sub- t reactionaries depriving the rank and file of the right to elect their own dis- trict financial secretary. Bloom can be cepended upon to t the side of the bosses in all griev- ance cases. The machinists’ helpers in their elections de- feated every reactionary who: dared to announce his candidacy for important office. Carter, who has consistently trained with the Lukas gang, led the reactionary stool-pigeon group of can- didates down to defeat in one of. the most sen- ivities, In one of his numerous epistles to the*Grand Lodge of the I. A. of M., Carter charged that Reds “boring from within” were in control of the local. The executive council instructed Carter to produce the evidence and the Reds would be | ousted from the org: zation. When the matter e its officers a unanimous vote of confidence. Later Carter and his cohorts addressed a com- munication to local management of the com- | pany naming those who, °> his opinion, should be fired because they were Reds. The bosses then began a siege of terrorism against those named by this stool-pigeon. Car- ter’s defeat and the trouncing handed his whole | ticket is the apparent answer of the workers belonging to the machinists helpers lodge. The workers are evidently greater interested | im the program of the Communist Party than ever before. The Daily Worker which is being sold at the shops daily is eagerly awaited by the shopmen and mar pennies ready for the comrades as they in through the gates each morning. pass The neighborhood close to the shops where | the workers make their homes is being canvassed nightly Red Sundays have been made a per- manent feature. Many suodscriptions have been obtained and hundreds have signed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. These contacts will be utilized in the building of Unemployed Councils and the National Railroad Industrial | League. The following program of immediate demands has been formulated and put forth by the shop nucleus »f the Communist Party: 1. The immediate institution of the six-hour day, five-day week, with pay for eight hours | work. 2. Where a worker is employed only three days per week the company shall pay the dif- | ference between that and what would have been earned under the fiv days per week schedule. 3. Rank and file workers’ administration of all relief funds and the setting aside of the $25,- 000,000 increase in profits in 1929 for the relief of these workers who are not now employed, or who have been employed on a three days per week schedule. In no instance shall workers be required to contribute to charity funds. The company must be compelled to sacrifice all profits during the remainder of the crisis which was brought about by the capitalist owners of industry, these profits to go into the relief fund. 4. No worker's family must be permitted to face eviction from his home for inability to pay rent, nor shall heat, light and gas be denied his family. These necessities must be paid for by the company out of its enormous profits coined during the pa several years. The speed-up system which has been great- intensified since the crisis began and especial- ly since the institution of the Hoover “stagger | system” on this railroad must be completely abolished at once. The Communist shop nucleus in its statement concerning the above demands has this to say: “There is nothing unreasonable about these demands which were adopted after a careful survey of the situation. The suffering among our fellow workers has become so terrible that immediate steps must be taken if they and their families are to stave off st ation. The usual program fo the bosses, naturally, is based upon the theory that the full burden of the collapse of capitalist economy must be borne by the work- ers. This attempt to bring misery, suffering and privation into the homes of those who have slaved to create profits for the North West Railroad stockholders must be hit and hit hard. Our wives and babies must not be permitted to suffer because of the want of proper food and clothing. We must fight for bread for our loved ones, for milk for the kiddies and against the efforts of the bosses to crush us into docile sub- | mission.” Commemorate Mella Day Oo yei have passed (January 10, 1931) since Julio Antonio Mella was assassinated in the City of Mexico. He was killed by the tools of Gerardo Machado, the dictator of Cuba, work- ing in criminal alliance with the police of the Porites Gil-Morrow government. imperialism. ‘The second anniversary of the death of Mella, and its commemoration as a demonstration against imperialism, has tremendous signifi- cance not only because of what Mella represents, but also because of the situation in Cuba and in the whole of South and Central America. For we now find there a frightful terror. There are uprisings and coup d’etats of various factions of the ruling class. There is an increase of the rivalry among the great imperialist powers, especially between the United States and Britain. ‘There is also an upsurge of revolutionary move- ments of the exploited and oppressed workers and peasants against the feudal and imperialist regimes. All this is the result of the economic and political crisis. The second anniversary of the barbarous” as- sassination of Julio Mella should be~a symbol of commemoration also for all those others who have fallen in the struggle against imperialism such as the victims of the Cuban terror—Lopez, Varona, Cuxart and Wong. We remember those assassinated by fascism in Mexico, Guadalupe Rodriguez and Landeros; and also Hilario Mon- tenegro killed by the agents of the Venezuelan tyrant Juan Vicente Gomez in Curacao, as well as those who fell in the banana strike in Colombia. All over Latin America, and especially in the Caribbean region, the most bloody methods of repression are employed by imperialism and its agents against the revolutionary movement. The trade unicn movement, the Communist Parties, sections of the Anti-Imperialist League, as well as all organizations of a genuine anti-imperialist character have been outlawed. Murders, depor- tations, imprisonments and every form of re- pression and torture are being used against workers and peasants. January 10 will bring a huge mobilization of the oppressed peoples of Latin America against American imperialism and its agents. It will bring a movement of solidarity with the work- ers and anti-imperialist students of Cuba who are at this very moment struggling against the terror of Both of these | governments are the direct agents of Yankee | | The Anti-Imperialist League of the United | States brings to the forefront the struggle against American imperialism, against the pre- paredness for an imperialist war and the com- | ing attack on the Soviet Union. The League calls upon the workers in the United States who suffer from the same persecution—unemploy- ment, hunger and poverty—to show solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Latin America, the Philippines and other colonial countries under the heel of imperialism. The anti-imperialist demonstrations of the | | workers here in protest against the terror in Cuba, Mexico, India and elsewhere, have already shown .the spirit of class solidarity with those oppressed peoples. The best way to develop this solidarity is to build the Anti-Imperialist League, participate in all its activities, and make the League a real mass organization. This is the prerequisite for an effective fight against im- perialism and imperialist war, and against the fascist terror in Latin America. The Anti-Imperialist League will commemorate Mella Day in a huge protest meeting on Sunday, January 11, 1931, at 3 p. m. at New Harlem Ca- sino, 100 West 116th Street. All branches and anti-imperialist organizations should hold similar meetings throughout the country. Down with American inyperialism! Down with the Imperialist Agents in Latin America! For the Absolute Independence of the Op- pressed Peoples! me before the local the membership extended [| of them have their | Socialist Cities By G. T. GRINKO People's Commissar of Finance, U. S. S. R. XIV. | ORE and more frequently, and with ever | greater empha: the workers and the vari- our social organizations and individuals engaged in the work of housing construction demand that plans be prepared for the reconstruction of the existing cities and especially for the building of new city settlements in connection with the in- dustrial enterprises and plants which are now under construction. Many such large cities as Moscow, Kharkov, and Kiev, have already pre- | pared the first drafts of plans for the total re- construction of these cities. We are on the eve of great scientific works and great social move- ments linked up with the determination of the character and type of socialist cities. In the leading capitalist countries a great deal has been done during the last decade in the field of city planning in accordance with the de- mands of madern technique and rational organ- ization. International socialism frequently dis- cussed this subject during the period preceeding the imperialist war. But city planning in the capitalist world cannot shake off its capitalist character. However high its level, from the point of view of material and technical resources however perfect the isolated experiment of gar- den suburbs may be, they still are merely serving the interests of the upper bourgeois layer of so- ciety. Under capitalist conditions it cannot be | otherwise. The problem of the rational organiza- tions of the cities from the point of view of the proletaria’, can be su sfully solved only in a ty whose organization is entirely subordin- = ed to the interests of the widest masses of toilers. A really rational organized city must be a socialist ci And there is no doubt that in the near future the scale of housing construction in the U.S.S.R., which is continually growing, will bring closer the practical solution of one of the most complex and fascinating problems of the creation of a socialist city. Here the construc- tion of the genuine cities of the future is really | being worked out. ie Te From The Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union, by G. T. Grinko, one of the original collaborators on the Five-Year Plan of So- cialist industrialization, a complete account of the Plan, containing the first two years of its operation and a political estimate of its place in world economy. By special arrangement with Interna- tional Publishers this $2 book FREE WITH THE DAILY WORKER FOR ONE YEAR( $8 in Manhattan and the Bronx, $6 outside New York. Rush your subscription to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, New * York. Mention this offer. | ‘ Fighting Functionaries—the Need of the Hour By I. AMTER. 'HE masses, since the expulsion of the rotten elements from our midst, have felt a new pulsating life, a quicker response to the demands of the sharpening class struggle on the part of the Communist Party. They see the Party fight- ing on all fields that touch the life of the worker, his wife and family. They see the Party becom- ing the real leader of the masses in the struggle against the capitalists, and the capitalist govern- ment. This they note also in the investigation of the Fish Committee, which explicitly explains ‘that it is not investigating “socialism, radical- ism, pacifism,” but only Communism. Correct! But there is nothing to investigate; the Com- munist i'arty declares openly, as it did in the Long live the Solidarity the Workers of the United States with those of Latin America! Build the Anti-Imperialist League! ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE OF : THE UNITED STATES, Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. 8. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. Please send me more information on the Cum- munist Party. Name .... Address City .....60. Occupation . Age . «Mail this to the Central “omee, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St, New York, N.Y, statement read before the Fish Committee by Comrade Foster that it fights for the interests of the unemployed, the part-time worker, the worker who still has a job but has to accept wage cuts, the Negro, foreign-born, young and woman worker, the working class child. It fights against the coming imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. What limits the work of the Party, however, 4s the crying need of fighting Communist func- tionaries. Yes, the Party has made or is rapidly making the turn. What hampers it is particular- ly the lack of functionaries to lead the Party membership along the line of new methods and as a united body to lead the working class into the militant struggle. Functionaries—function- aries—everywhere the demand—and the Party itself must supply them, The districts are developing whatever forces they can—but this is far from sufficient. The Central Committee last year provided a National. Training School, at which about 30 comrades were Chinese Soviets Advance DMISSION that the Communist forces in China are rapidly spreading their influence, not only among vast millions of peasants, but as well among the workers, is contained in two articles appearing in the January issue of Cur- rent History, entitled: “The Strength of Com- munism in China.” These articles were written by. Edgar Snow, special correspondent of the | New York Sun, and Reginald E, Sweetland, cor- respondent of the Chicago Daily News. Both agree that the Red Army in China is rapidly advancing, increasing its territory, and that the Kuomintang forces with all the help of the im- perialists have not been able to stop it. Referring to the Communist Party, writes: “The Communist Party of China, since the ex- pulsion of its members from the Kuomintang by the ‘purgationists’ in 1927, has gained in strength. Communism is no longer—if it has ever been— merely the hallucination of alarmists in China. It is a potent factor which threatens to become a dominating one in the revolutionary scene. The Communist Party of China at present has no more than 100,000, no fewer than 70,000 mem- bers; people who think that Communism in China lacks sufficient strength for a separate revolution are mistaken,” Snow points out not only the successes in the villages but the growing influence in the cities. “In the cities,’ he writes, “the Communists directed their energies to workers in every in- dustry. In Shanghai during 1929 they were re- sponsible for 184 strikes involving approximately 160,000 workers.” He goes on to say, “The Snow dwindling influence of the Kuomintang with | the proletariat was shown by the 3,000 mem- bers in its Shanghai labor unions in 1930, as compared with more than 20,000 in 1927.” From this he draws the conclusion that, “The Communist Party.in China has the advantages of numerical strength apparently equal to that of the Kuomintang; a region for operations coy- ering five provinces,” and, he adds, “the actual possession and administration of between 50,000 and 60,000 square miles; the cooperation of So- viet. Russia; the sympathies of large numbers of poor peasants; the support of many thou- sands of half-starved . workers, and constant desertions and mutinies among government troops opposing the rebels, Sweetland, whose article-comes to the same conclusion of the growing strength of Commu- nism throughout China says: “Communist armies, | of which there are as many as twenty-one in China today, have shown a thoroughness, a dis- patch gnd an efficiency which has never been equaled by any other armed force in China.” ‘Though Sweetland makes it a special point in his article to distinguish between bandits and Communists, something he says is very. much confused in the minds of the average reader, he fails to mention the fact that he together with the rest of the capitalist corvespondents are re- sponsible for this line of propaganda, aimed to increase intervention agdinst the Chinese revo- lutionary workers and peasants. At the same time, news comes from South China that Chang Fak Wei, ciate of Wang Ching Wei, fake “left” in the Kuo- mintang, has begun operations yagainst the Kwangsi faction. Chang Fak Wei is the com- mander of the 4th Army, known as the “iron- sides” army. He has been supported by British imperialism, but Wang Ching Wei ‘has been being received with warm response. the military asso-’ | Fight Against Police Supervision of Foreign Born Workers’ 'HE establishment by the New York Police De- partment of a “Buro to check up on alien criminals” should not be considered as an in- dependent move on the part of the police, not true that the establishment of this buro was brought into effect in order to “rid themselves of criminals.” “I urge he strengthening of our deportation laws so as to more fully rid ourselves of criminal aliens.” . That was the demand of the capitalists through President Herbert Hoover upon opening the ses- sion of the Congress of the U. S. A., at the same time when the police gassed 500 delegates that represented 300,000 organized workers that pro- tested against all discriminatory bills pending in Congress. ‘This command of Hoover's was picked up by the newly appointed secretary of the department given a training for the struggle, and this merely emphasized the need of functionaries. This year, the Central Committee is arranging a three- months Training School for about 75 students, | who must help to supply the great dearth of functionaries. ‘These comrades must be/ active comrades from the shops and mines, comrades, who must be given a better training, so that they will be equipped for work on their return to their shop or mine, or be taken over entirely for Party work; comrades who will fill the gaps in the Party organization, in the field of the West and South, in the unions, mass organizations, etc. The units and sections of the Party must im- mediately begin to select the comrades to be re- commended to the districts. They must propose young, promising material, comrades who have made or are making the turn, comrades with initiative, with a dee> sense of responsibility, comrades active in the unions. But one more feature jmust be ~~~ ~:mbered: The training of these comrades must be made the business of the masses of we-":ers. ‘The mass organizations—unions, clubs, fraternal lodges, etc. —must accept a responsibility in financing the students. They must be made part of the organ- ization that is giving the 75 workers this revo- lutionary training. Workers Educational Confer- ences must be held in @ery district, and ways and means be worked out to finance the students. This is one of the most important tasks con- fronting the revolutionary movement, and there is no doubt that the revolutionary workers and organizations will do. their part, of Labor, Doak, who specified more clearly the intentions of the capitalists toward the foreign | | born. According to Doak, a functioning ap- It is | paratus shall be set up in order to check up on “alien gangsters.” The New York Police re- sponded very promptly to the demand ‘of the spokesman of the capitalist government, and established this “apparatus” which is parading under the name of “the Buro to check up on alien criminals.” i] While formally the duty of this buro is to deal with criminals, in fact it is an utter dis- crimination against the foreign born. The actual task of this buro is to threaten the foreign born, persecute them and deport any one who takes an active part in any working class movement. The connection between the Federal Immigra- tion Commissioners and this buro clearly shows what their duty will be. More than that, it also shows that this buro, which claims to be under the direct supervision of the New York Police Department, is also a unit of the federal author- ities that tend to discriminate against the for- eign born, This buro cannot, and will not, curb gangster- ism, that in most cases has close connection with the police and other forces of capitalism, and work hand in hand against workers in strikes, ete. The National Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born brands this buro as an institution that is sponsored by various anti-alien bills. The gentlemen in Congress are not very certain that they will succeed in passing these bills, due to the movement aroused to counteract them, and therefore are trying to put forth some proposi- tions that are incorporated in these bills into practice even before the bills will be taken up. This move to discriminate the foreign born will be fought by the entire working class in this country, At the local and state conferences for the Protection of the Foreign Born, which will take place in January and February, this question will be discussed thoroughly, and on the basis of discussion, one of the demands shall be to abolish police supervision and all such departments or institutions which discriminate the foreign born workers, The National Committee calls upon all organ- ; izations to prepare for local and state confer- ences, p —National Committee for the rovection, .... @& the Foreign Born. i Boom 605, 32 Union Sq, Ne Xs Cr two months, $1; One year, | sermon, that we all “have child-like simplicity | for “blocking the inquiry,” excepting Boroughs aix months, $4.50. A Comedy in Crooks Despite the command of Rev. Joseph P. Mc- Comas, of Old St. Paul's church,*in a_ recent of faith,” we, brothers and sisters, are suspicious. We might, perhaps, have had a little—just ¢ teeny weeny bit—of faith in Mr, Broderick’s soli- citude for the small depositors of the Bank of U. S. had we not learned that a Mr. Warder, his predecessor in the office of State Supt. of Banks, was convicted of bribery for preventing an examination of the bankrupt City Trust Bank Jast year. e In reading about Mr. Warder in Friday's N. Y. Post, we ran across the following: “Immediately rumors of wholesale forgeries and thefts in the City Trust began to make the rounds. To these, the Banking Superintendent maintained an in- scrutable silence.’ Well, boys and girls, we are sure that the silence of Mr. Warder was no more inscrutable than that of Mr. Broderick is. But we look further, and, bless us! if we don’t find that the same identical Attorney Max Steuer, who is posing as the heroic defender of the small depositors of the Bank of U. S., is the attorney for Mr. Warder! Ponder over that a while! But there art more crooks than is dreamt of in thy philosophy, Horatio. Tammany is busy as all get-out “investigating” itself. District Atty. Crain starts a “secret commit- tee” Ao “drive out racketeers” (which we ex- posed a while back). But now behold, one Mr, Riegel of something called the Consumer Guild, seems to have arranged with none other than, Max Zaritsky, crooked leader of the Cap and Millinery Workers of the A. F. of L., to pi and quite conclusjvely, that Crain had arra1 with Police Commissioner Mulrooney, to j “make a showing” about fighting rackets, Somebody called Seabury, who. seems.to be a republican, starts to lift a few lids on. ‘Tammany by way of an Appellate Court inquiry of Tam - many judges (No, Junior, the Appellate Division has nothing to do with selling apples;). - Well and good, Seabury can’t miss fire on the judges. But up pops the devil, no, Mr. Crain, demanding that he be allowed to “help.” Huh, help strangle the inquiry! Then suddenly the Corporation Counsel finds out the inquiry is “un- constitutional” and Jimmy Walker, you know him, backs him up. Seabury denounces Walker and Governor Roose- velt becomes addicted to speculative philosophy on city government and says it’s all the fanit of the electorate! Nice, ain’t it? Then, right in the middle of Seabee iaraigy his main actor, a lawyer named. Kresel, after tearing the sky loose about graft in the police department and courts, has the spot-light turned on him as the attorney for the busted Bank of U. S. who was also one of its directors and help shape its policies, which seem at least open to question. Then, in this inquiry into magistrates’ courts, @ whole slew of cops are involved in grafting on “vice” and working trame-ups. Not a few of | them are facing evidence of bribery and extor- tion. These are felonies. But—the cops are sacred because they are needed by capitalism to club workers. So, instead of being yanked up with arrest and indictment for felony, they get a phoney “trial” by the Police Department itself! Isn’t that most | lovely arrangement you could imagine? making overtures to Wall Street and these are | If the Cop Department finds the cop innocent, he is O. K., and if “guilty,” he is no more than “humbled” by becoming an unofficial bootlegger instead of one officially on the force. Lovely? No end! Altogether, what. a comedy in crooks! And while capitalism lasts, please don’t expect us to have “child-like simplicity of faith.” We Keep Right At It We have received the following, which speaks for itself: “Red Sparks:—It was with a sense of relief that I recently read your article in the Daily Worker that criticized some of our comrades for their snobbishness. The article was timely and very much in order. I am not so sure, however, that your advice, though well directed, has as yet brought about the desired results. “Many complaints have reached me relative to the clannishness of certain groups-of workers, and especially of those in the needle trades. Many of the members of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union and their friends, who, when | they return from a trip to sea, very naturally seek recreation and relaxation, and \properly they turn to the affairs under auspices of the Party, the T. U. U. L.,, or the various revolution- ary unions and councils, * “Our members often bring their friends with them. As friends they are all potential mem- bers. They have invariably been struck with the cold reception that is given them, “In part, they are brought to these affairs with the idea of assuring them that revolution- ists in this country are comradely human beings, with a common problem and purpose, whose greatest desire is to see the movement grow in © strength to its ultimate success. They are turned away almost with contempt, are made to feel isolated, are given the idea that a strict sense of formality exists in our ranks, And the result is expressed in justifiable resentment at their treatment, and a rejection of those who represent the industrial organizations based on proletarian lines, “We of the Party must learn to understand and appreciate the value of our social affairs as a means for winning over new friends and sym- pathizers. Intelligent revolutionists cannot be made through the medium of a bazaar or dance, but the bazaar and dance can be used as & very practical method of approach. In this ‘period of. crisis innumerable workers are groping for s way out of their misery, Our structure is not yet developed to the point where we can reach all, and when those who do under= stand the line, wilfully do not make the most of our present facilities for further organization, their neglect is next to criminal in its nature, “So, comrade, even though you may have to write ten articles, awaken these ‘comrades to a sense of duty and objigation to themselves and all others concerned. — Comradely, “Joseph