The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1931, Page 4

poem OE A. ote Se ie ae roy i RPh eg Published: by the Compredaily Poblishing Co, fac, ally, except Sunday, at 60 Fest > SSR a alge ua iE Page Four ith Btreet, New York City, N. X. Telephose Algonquin 1956-7. Cable: “DAIWORE.” By maf eraran ibe! ‘One year: 38; siz montba $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs A 4 Address end mall ail checks te the Dally Worker, KO ast 1sth Street, New York, N.-¥. 6f Manhattan end Bronx, New York City, #éreign: One year, $3; six months $4.50. } i cae Sais. Z See RASS Es ek " eS UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE | YOUNG WORKERS Tee are over 2,000,000. unemployed young workers in the United States. The condi- tions of these workers are becoming worse and worse: Homeleés, misery, hunger, evictions, etc. face the unemployed workers. As a result the unemployed workers have organized demonstra- tions, hanger marches, etc. Under’ the léader- ship of the Trade Union Unity Leagué and the Unemployed Councils to demand unemployprent insurance, against evictions, ete. ‘The young workers participated very militantly and fought against: the. police, géngsters, when the Hunget Marches were attacked. d In the Hunger March in Botough Hall of Brooklyn the young unemployed. workérs played a very important role. They were in ‘the fore- front*of the march ‘and to young workers were elected to present the demands of the unem- ployed together with a committee to the Borough President. When the police attuckéd the Hunger Match. the young workers helped thé adult work- ers to fight back the police, very” bfavely. In Minneapolis thousands of leaflets were is- sued to the unemployed yourig workers, the Na- tiorlal Guard, ete.,. calling them to. paritcipate in the Hunger Match» Hundredsrof Young work+ ers, Workers’ children, joined the Hunger: March. They cheered and.shouted for the demands of the Uneraiployed Couneil: /. young worke* and an unemployed worker's child was élécted in-the delegation to presént the demands of the un- emp!yed to the city authorities. After the Hun- ger Mareh 40 young workers. joinéd the Un- emr .-yed. Council. I> Cleveland the Youth Committee of the T.U.C.L. together with the Unemployed Council led thousands of young and adult workers to the city hall to demand unemployment insur- anee.. The young workers éspecially are very militant and from restaurant to réstaurent, ate food and told the owners to charge it to the city. In Detroit, hundreds of young workers par- ticipsted at the city hall demonstration expos- ing. the fake program of. Mayot Murphy and demanding unémployment insurauce that will be supervised by the, Unemployed Council. Everywhere we witness the) growing militancy of the young workers éxpressed in the Hunger March>s, demonstrations, etc. The fact that we can rally ‘the unemployed young workers té our demonstrations and Hunger Marchés shows that we ate food propagandists. “This: is y4ry weil. But thé thain ‘thing is’ to draw in thé ‘vourte workers. into the Unemployed Councils. This is our weakness. - If, however, we have drawn the young workers inté the Unemployéd Coundils we think out job is complétéd. We do not-giye the young workers activity... We de not develop Youth Cor tiees of the. Unémployéd Councils, we do nt develo) special struggles. around cér- A Worker Visits the Fa armers “By HARRISON GEORGE. is sometimes diffi¢ult to overcome the lic, spread year after yeat by the capitalist press, that it °: “difficult” to get the farmers and workers to ally their forces against capitalism. The cApitalist press always pretends that farmers folldw, the ¢ity capitalists rather than the révo- Intiénkry workers. It is true that some farmers do so, but then theré are all kinds of farmers, poor, middle and | rich: farmers, an@ the rich fafmers certainly feel an attraction to théir fellow capitalists, sométimés influencing part of the middle farm- ers in the same direction. But the poor farmers and part of the hard- run middle farmers.are véry glad to meét revo- lutionary workérs from the cities, they wéleome gladly the idea and organization of an alliance between them and the militant city workers, and any such worker who will only try, will find a mist inspiring fraternity and will for joint strug- gle against the robbers of both workers and farmers. An ihstance in point-is that of a Toledo, O., wotkér who took the Program of the United Farmers League, the only militant organization of farmers, whose address is Box 278, New York Mills, Minnesota, into the farm region near his home. ‘&nd spoke to.a meéting of some 40 farm- ets. The résult is indicated by the following resolution which they, adopted: “we, the poverty-stricken farmers of Rising Sun, aot County, Ohio, assembled in mass meeting, after listening to the speaker and after we discussed the économie position of the poor farmers in the United States of América, came to the following conclusions: / “1. That thé U. S. Government is.an institu- tion of the bankers, capitalists and landlords for thé purpose to exploit, oppress and suppréss the poor farmérs and wage workers, and “3, The présent economic crisis is being placed @m.the shoulders of the poor farmiérs ‘and the Wage workéts by the capitalists and landlords with the support of the government, and “3. Because the government hélps the land- lords and capitalists to ¢xploit the poor farmers. hundreds of fatmers in our County 6f Wood are being réduced to the position of a miser- » able existence, many being forced to leavé the farms and go in the citi¢s as unemployéd work- ers; and The Struggle Against High Prices By. JACK STACHEL. It is almost surprising that the fight against igh prices of bread, milk, produce, meats, etc. thas not yet developed into a mass struggle. Un- questionably this is due to the fact that nei the Communist Party nor the Trade Union Unity League have given any attention to this ques- tion. Jn only isolated places was the fight un- dertaken. In Detroit the fight for the reduction of the price of bread carried on against the Jew- igh bakers under the leadership of the léft wing women's Ais apr oteey and the TUUL, was suc- cessful of the attempt of the socialists thru the lewish Forward to cripple the movment. No doubt the chief.reason for the failure of said and thé TUUL to develop titis move- due to the fact that there exists a wrong that ths workers should not fight against prices, since the basi¢ fight must be at the point of production—in the shops. Of this attitude has nothing in common with commie! pation It is a hold-ovef from the the sean . our ment fi idea | established the are ex- ploited not only at the point of but What there exists also <" a et ce tain youth demands and carry on special youth activities (socials, spotts.)' That is one of the reasons why, when a young worker joins the Unemployed Council he does not remain in there. We must dlways bear in mind that while hay- ing démonstrations and Hunger Marches, the main’ thing is to draw the young workers into the Unemployed Councils. When they are drawn in’ and the executive committee elected, there mist be at, least, three young workers on the exécutive committee who will constitute the Youth Committee of the Unemployed Council. . The Youth Committee under the guidance and di- rection of the executive committee of the Un- employed Council must develop youth. activities, call special méétings of unémployed young work- és; arrange’ spécial demonstrations of the un- | employed youtig wotkers and unemployed work- | ers’ children atound the special, youth demands, ete. At the sate time the Youth Committee is to atrange social dnd sports activity as arrang- ing. parties, affairs, dances, sport teams, etc, Signature Campaign for the Insurance Bill. The campaign for the colléction of signatures fer the Unemployment Insurance Bill has not been. devélopéd in.a réal mass form especially among the young workers. It was primarily limited to the Y.C.L. and our’ closest sympa- thizers. In the few weeks left this ¢ampaign ‘must be widened and broadened out so it will reach tens of thousands of yougg workers. It must be taken into the shops; in front of fac- tory. gates, at employment agencies, at bread lines, flop house to ‘flop house, canyassing ‘in youth organizations, into the Y.M.C.A., National Guard, ete, It must become the demand of thousands and thousands of ,unérnployed : young , workers. must approach the youth organizations especially the Labor Sports Union clubs to open their club rooms as campaign quarters to collect signatures, They should haye a, big sign outside of their } headquarters announcing the drive, etc. Election of Delegates to Washington In the election of delegates to Washington to preseht the demands of the unemployed to the congress, the young workers must be drawn into jons., The districts shall elect youth | and especially the large districts as k. Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, De- troit. Buffalo, Clevéland, Minnesota, ete. Specia] mass meetings of: young unemployed workers mist. b+ called in all districts to endorse the youth délegates who will go to. Washington to resert especially the needs of the young Workers. ‘ Develop the campaign for signatures. Mobilize the young workers for the ployment Insurance Bill. Build the Unemployed Councils ahd its Youth Committees. Unem- “4. Wé6 are convinced that the government We | will not give us any relief as long as we are not organized in a militant organization and put up a@ fight for immediate farmers’ relief. There- | fore— “We RESOLVE: To form a Township Com- | mittee i: Rising Sun, embracing all poor farmers in order not only to fight for immediate relief but to join the United Farmers League of Amer- | fea, and “That ‘vé fully approve and accept the Progrant of the United Farmers League, and | “We pledge ourselves to do éverything in our | power for the organization of all poor farmers for united struggle against the rich farmers and landlords and capitalists, and “That: wé carry on this struggle for the estab- lishment of a Workers and Farmers Govern- ment.” aN At the meéting. over 500 copies of the “United Parmer,” organ of the U. S. Léague, were dis- tributed, a Township Committee formed and a secrétary elected to kéep connection with the League headquarters. In all sections of the country this sort of work can be done by any worker who really tries, | makes trips into the country on Sundays, and not only géts organization started, but keeps in touch afterward and helps the new Commit- tees of the Leagué function and grow and begin. really to fight for the interests of the farmers of the district. The demands to be stressed, of course, vary greatly according to the different. section and spécial product. Workers must not be rigid, but flexible, in allowing eyery initiative to these fighting farmers in both the choice of local or- ganizational form or name, and in centering théit struggle around 47 demand felt by them to bé most important, so long as it is directed against capitalism, whether they -accept the whole program of the United Farmers League or not. With this in mind, there should be workers ini All ¢ities who will go into the ¢ountry around to bring the message of a workers’ and farmers’ alliance to the poor and middle farmers. They will be welcoméd almost everywhere. Help the | farmers to win something, and show thém that the workers will keep up their end of the al- liance! which is carried thru by the monopolists thru high monopoly prices. A basic phase of such a struggle is of course also the struggle for the re- duction of rent for workers. ‘There is no question that there exists at the present time both a sound basis and subjective Teadinéss of the masses to fight against high prices. Tho the movement has not yet developed because we fafled to express this need, to formu- late demands upon which we can rally the mas- ses, unless we hastén to give attention to this front, the workers will be mislead by the dema- gogues of all brands, fascists and social fascists, who will take hold of the movement. The plat- form of the Hitlerites in the recent German elec- tions ought to bring this danger forcefully to our attention. ‘The following are some of the important things that must be rémemberéd in the development of such a movement. 1,. The movement against high rents and high prices must enlist the support of the workers Fini Capi iced aep sae re Do toneat eba jee ot eocaia ie WEIR whith a ¢ to lower | prices is tn proceck The | it, must be "clear from the dete beeen thatthe loweriag. aha PARTY Life Results and Lessons of the Hunger March and the Next Tasks in the Struggle for Unemployment Relief, Insurance (Resolution of the Bureau of District N advance to a higher stage of militancy through the introduction of direct mass -ac- tion in the struggle for immediate relief is the outstanding and: most significant achievement of the hunger marches in District Six. The struggle against unemployment which has been lagging has been given new impetus and rallied néw forces. Carried through in the face of unfavorable weather conditions, they reveal in a dramatic manner the.bitterness and desperation of the unemployed and their determination to seize every opportunity for struggle against hunger and for immediate concrete demands. By forcing the city authorities to recognize our delegation as the spokesmen of the unem- ployed: by compelling them to make our demands | the basis for their discussion and to actually make some con¢essions as in Youngstown, by | exposing the unwillingness of the capitalist poli- ticians to provide even a small measure of relief, we have proven to the unemployed through act- ual experience that organized mass struggle is the only means of effecting some amelioration | Of their condition and actually securing immed- iate relief. The workers have also been given a practical lesson in revolutionary. parliamentar- ism and in the ¢lass character of government which must serve to accelerate the poe of radicalization. ‘The practicability of street demodstrations that begin in various working class ngighbor- hoods ‘and converge in one central point was established by the Hunger Marches..'This marks an important advance in our struggle for the streets which must be noted and followed up. Mistakes and Shortcomings Although brtter planned and executed than any previous demonstrations, the preparatory campaign and the Hunger Marches revealed once again the still persisting weakness of the Party. The principal shortcoming was the failure to bring the T.U.U.L. forward as the leader in the fight for the immediate partial demands of the workers. In view of the weakness of the local T.U.U.L. which made it impossible for us to de- pend upon its apparatus for the preparation of the Hunger March in the short time at our dis- posal, the Party was obliged to play a too prom- inent role in this action. This was further ag- gravated by the fact that it was necessary for the Party D.O. and in other cities the Party section organizers, to head and act as spokes- men of the delegations. We must recognize that although necessary in this instance, and that while the Party can appear within these dem- onstrations, our aim must be to bring the T.U. of the prices must not be at the expense of the workers. On the contrary it must always point | | out ‘the ‘exploitation of the workers in that indys- ° try and raise the demand for higher wages and better working conditions. In this manner the fight against high prices must bé organically con- hetted up with the struggle against the attempts Of the bosses to lower the living standards of the workers» It must stand for the struggle for 2, The: i must aim to organize the consumers tenants leagues, consumers ¢roups etc. organically connected with the move- ment of the unemployed and the Trade Union Unity League. 3. The struggle must be a mass struggle. We must guard against petition campaign appeals, etc. Only the militant mass struggle of the workingclass housewives who must be in the fore- front of the struggle assisted by the entire work- ingclass’ can be successful in the lowering of the prices and advance the general interests of the entire working-class. 4. While membeys of the professional classes, small merchants, etc., can become part of such a movement, only the workers and.their organi- zations, the organizations of workers’ wives can léad such a movement. Real care must be taken that these other elements do not dominate the movement. ‘While the basic struggle is the fight against the boss offensive on the living standards of the workers, thru the development -of strike strug- gles against wage cuts, for better conditions, for unemployment relief and insurance, the develop- ment of the fight against high prices and rents can become a powerful auxiliary force in this UL. forward as the leader of all struggle for partial economic demands. We must also take note,of the inability of may of the sections and units to develop pre- liminary struggles on local ‘ssues; the inadequate participations of many sections and units in the general preparatory work a.: shown by poor at- tendance at the unit and section membership meetings preceeding the marches; the instances of ottright cowardice and sabotage of individual members who failed to engage in the preparatory work and were absent from the demonstration | without good cause; the failure to mobilize and secure the participation of the locals of the A. , of L. and even many of the fraternal or- ganizations close to our movement. An error into which some comrades. fell and against which we must warn is the tendency to be influenced by reports of the capitalist press on the substance of speeches prade by Party spokesmen. As against these shortcomings, the positive achievements whére thé plan of work was ap- plied and the splendid courage of the majority of the Party membershjp which participated in the demonstrations show the steady though slow progress of the Party in this District. The march from the Fisher Body plant, a distance of over 100 blocks; the development of the unemployed council in the Negro neighborhood of Section Two which brought hundreds of Negro workers into the demonstration as an organized body, are indicative of the possibilities that are present and will result in development of mass strug- gle wherever the correct methods outlined in the resolutions of the C.C. and D.C. Plenums are energetically applied. Our Next Tasks in the Struggle Against Unemployment. In the light of the experiences of the Hunger March Campaign, we must now undertake a rapid intensification df our struggle against un- employment. Our principal task is to establish functioning unemployed councils capable of ral- lying all workers in the shop, industry or neigh- borhood where they operate. To link up these counci's with the still employed workers through joint committees of employed and unemployed of the shop, industry or neighborhood. This can be accomplished only in the struggle for immediate relief. We must expect and be prepared to lead or- ganized marehes upon and demonstrations around large restaurants, chain storés and ware- houses as the workers realize that they cannot hope to secure food othérwise. Similar action must be anticipated in the struggle against evic- tions, foreclosures on homes and furniture; use of public service (gas, Heht, water, transporta- tion). ‘The council shall repinias. all unemployed in their vicinity; the needs’ and demands of each unemployed worker are to be recorded. Dele- gations of the councils backed by the entire membership and all other ‘workers who can be mobilized must make daily visits to charity or- ganizations, to city institutions, etc., to present the concrete demands of that day and fight to compel the granting of thé given demands. The importance of ages? the workers we are still employed in the: uke cg tnt employment. must:hot be lost sight of. Tile ca be effected by the unemployed themselves, hold- ing meetings in front of shop-{ going into shops during working houts” upon. the workers employed there. to in a struggle against an eviction or a fight for food taking place around the nieghborhood of the shop; in struggles for reduction of food Lewca against the stagger system, wage cats.| Our con- tinued failure to penetrate the reactionary unions is a most serious, weakness. Delegations from unemployed councils must be sent to every local union meeting. We must call upon the member- ship in these unions to establish joint commit- tees of employed and unemployed and industrial councils for the menibérs of these locals. Fin- ancial suport, the lack of which seriously threat- ens our campaign and struggle must be secured from unions and other mass organizations. The central delegate bodies of the councils must be set up on a functioning basis without further de- lay and must take over the actual leadership and direction of all the activities of the councils. >AN-PACIFIC TRADE UNION SEC- *ETARIAT TO THE REVOLUTIONARY TRADE UNIONS IN INDIA | The P. PT. U. S. has addressed a. letter to | the forthcoming session of the All-Indian Trade Union Congress. The letter*reviews the revolu- tionary enemies of the Indian working class in its strug- | gle for national emancipation: bourgeoisie (National Congress) and, most dang- erdus of all, the “left” national reformists (the young Nehru, Bose, and others) who deny class struggle and want to turn the trade unions into an appendage of the bourgeois National Con- gress; 2) the British “Labor” Party, which car- ries out the blood and iron policy of British im- perialism in India, and 3) the Second and Am- sterdam International, who are trying through their British sections and-Indian agents to draw the Indian labor movement into the morass of social reformism and class collaboration. | The letter further lays down two basic condi- tions necessary for the success of the struggle for liberation of the Indian workers and peas- ants from foreign and native oppression: 1) a clear-cut working class program and policy, based on the uncompromising class sttuggle, with or- ganizations absolutely independent of the bour- geoisie and purged of all bourgeois and petty bourgeois leading (misleading) elements who only paralyze the revolutionary proletarian movement and hamper its development on the revolutionary class lines, and 2) international proletarian solidarity and joint action by the toiling masses of the colonial and semi-colonial | countries in alliance with the revolutionary pro- letariat of the capitalist and imperialist coun- tries. The letter draws the attention of the Jndian revolutionary trade- unions to the necessity of developing the economic struggles of the working class, linking them with political demands. The culmination of these partial struggles in the gen- eral strike will put the Indian proletariat in the all the toiling masses in the Indian revolution. The organization of revolutionary industrial trade unions on the basis of shop committees is also stressed. Finally, the letter calls upon the mil- itant trade unions in India to join the P. P. 'T. U. S. as the united revolutionary front of work- ers in colonial and capitalist countries against imperialism, capitalism and their social fascist allies. * . . At the annual session of the All-Indian Trade Union Congress in November, 1929, a heated dis- cussion occurred between representatives of the revolutionary trade unions and the reformists on the question of affiliation to the P. P. T. U. 8. The extreme right reformists—the direct agents of British imperialism in the Indian labor move- ment— seceded from the congress and made an attempt (till now not materialized) to organize their own All-Indian center. In the Executive “Committee of the Congress the resolution cal- ling for affiliation to the P. P. T. U. S. was pas- sed by a considerable majority, but afterwards the final decision was postponed for one year. The question will probably be again on the agenda of this year’s session. tion to Congress at Washington. The District and must adapt the plan for the Hunger March to the immediate tasks of preparing these demonstrations. Finally, our Party organization must be very drastically overhauled. Incompetent function- aries in sections and units as well as in the Dist- rict must be replaced without delay.. The depart- ments and the section and unit bureaus must function regularly and with dispatch. The en- tire membership of the Patty must be thoroughly activized in line with the District Plan of Work. ‘We must prepare for attacks upon the Party and create the means for rapid mobilization of | the Party for any emergency, and under all con- ditions. Definite proposals for this are to be made by the District Org-Department and pre- sented for adoption to an early mecting of the District Bureau; ‘The Hunger Marches of January 5th were but @ prelude to the militant mass struggles of the employed and unemployed that must be expected during the present winter. All members of Dist- rict Six must draw the necessary conclusions Pink erode eH oe a forefront as the real leader of the peasantry and | situation in India and points out the | 1) The national | | and the experiénce of their own struggles, the Antonia Ora; Filipino Fighter | for Independence, Reported Dead IANILA dispatches to the capitalist press tell —rather vaguely, of the death of Antonio Ora, fr years a leader of the Philippine working class movement. It is said that he was killed in an “automobile accident” while on the way to court to answer charges of “sedition.” It is said that Ora was connected with the ees nist Party of the’ Philippines. Antonio Ora was one of the outstanding fight- ers for Philippine independence, an intensely militant and honest leader of the Philipine Pro- letarian Labor Congress, section of the Pan- Pacific Trade Union Secretariat and the revolu- tionary trade union center embracing the ma= jority of the organized workers. He was a lead- er-of the street car strike some years ago, crushed by the American imperialists by armed force, and won the confidence of the workers generally by his staunch bravery’in defiance of oppression. There : : yet no Communist Party in the Philip- pines, and in 1925 Comrade Ora, with others formed Labor Party, Ora receiving one-third of the total vote of Manila as candidate for mayor. Since then, the party has changed its name in view of the anti-worker character of “labor” parties in England and Australia, but it was not and is not a Communist Party. In view of Comrade Ora’s sincerity and bravery in leading the workers and peasant> of the Philippines in their struggle for national in- dependence and for working class interests, all workers will understand why he was under charges of “sedition.” It vill also be understood why the capitalist press says he was killed “ac- y.” Ora was not the first militant Fili- pino worker the imperialists and their unspeak- able native servants have tried to assassinate. The death of Comrade Antonio Ora leaves a gap in the thin line of capable and honest reyo- lutionary working class leaders of the Philip- pines. But with the aid of the working class movement of the United States and the world, Filipino masses will raise up out of their own ranks and other fighting leaders who will carry on to the victorious end the struggle in which Comrade Ora served as a pioneer. SPECIAL BOOK OFFER FOR LENIN DAY ‘The International Publishers has gotten out t of Six Volumes of Lenin’s Works at y reduced price. 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