The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1931, Page 6

7 Page Six Published. by the Comprofatiy Publishing Co., {8th Street New York City, Address and mai! all checks to the Daily Worker, 60 East 13th Street, New York. N. ¥, Inc. @aily, except Sunday, at N. ¥. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7 Cable AND NOW THEY TELL US'TO ~ TIGHTEN OUR BELTS! By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT. 'W. WARBURTON, director of the extention * service of the Department of Agriculture, testifying before the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives said that he felt that the 45 million dollars already appro- priated to feed the poor farmers’ horses and mules and sows would do and that the 25 million dolar fund for food for the farmers and their families was not necessary, “I have no information on the general situa- tion,” he said, “but speaking generally, I might gay that I believe the farmers will be able to get by on the 45 million dollars already appropriated but would have to pull in their belts a little.” Here's a director of an_extention service who tells the starving farmers to pull in their belts. He fills his stomach thrice or more a day and plenty. He is for extended stomachs for the ‘bosses and the capitol city gang, but for the poor farmers and workers—well, he could have im- proved his relief program despite the fact that he‘ poses as totally ignorant of the situation. He could have spoken for an appropriation of a founle of million dollars for nice, new, strong belts, guaranteed not to break and to hush the ery of any starving worker or farmer for food. There should be a yery small size belt furnished as well, for little one and two year old babies! oe 6o <e Harold Beresford Butler (the name at once {ndicates that he is not standing on a bread line) who hails from England, a secretary in the League of Nations, is going to make a sensa- tional report upon the extent of unemployment in ‘the United States. The Unemployment Com- mittee of this league for war against the Soviet Union intends to make liars out of Hoover and Green, but for a purpose. It even now, before Harold has made his report, estimates the army of unemployed workers in this country as be- tween five and ten million. This committee, made up of employers and employes (the latter direct agents of the em- ployers’ says it is afraid that all this starvation ‘and unemployment will swing the world in the direction of Bolshevism. And so its aim is to put the fear of the twenty or more million job- Jess in the world into the black haerts of the bosses so that the bosses will begin their war upon the Soviet Union at once. 4 seat Nore Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the finance com- mittee of the. United States Steel Corporation. which has sucked billions of dollars worth of | workers’ blood and has burned hundreds to a | in the white’ hot steel in its mills, sticks Mit his chest like a powter pigeon and exclaims | that his grand company of exploiters has already given $200.000 to needy employes and former whployes of thé corporation. He divulees out of the depths of his dirty egnscience that ‘thé machine age is not a cold- blooded and cruel thing which seeks to exter- minate man; it 18 man’$ finest expression thru which great ‘fortes Nave been revealed to him by the Divine Haha.” ‘Starving uneffisloyed workers, poor farmers, this is'a gem. God and the corporations join hands in the finest expression that it has ever been our good fortune to meet—capitalism skin- ning the workers in the mills and shops thru ual wage cuts and speed up; capitalism advising poor farmers and unemployed workers to tighten their belts in this rich country, which now has a larger stock of gold than Great Britain, France, Germany and Spain combined. > . . ‘the New York World is having a fit because tbe “bill, passed by the Senate authorizing the Farm Board to distribute twenty millions of | bushels of wheat to starving farmers is not in | line with Hoover's policy which is not to give | food to the starving farmers or work | why the fit? The Daily Worker h pointed out that even if the Wall Street | in Washington, D. C., finally decide to distribute | this wheat, it will never reach the starving farm- | | ers until “dust to dust and ashes to ashes” is droned over their last, resting places. However, the World, which consummated a | companionate marriage with Nor n Thomas, the “socialist” betrayor, waxes hot over another matter. If this wheat is given away to allay the hunger of starving farmers, then how will the rich farmers be able to sell the laree stocks of wheat they have on hand, it argues? This is enouch to make anv poor farmer or worker clench his fists for fieht. Hundreds of millions of bushels of wheat stored in grain elevators. But it must be sold. If you have not even a cent to buy a grain of it, then starve, damn you! Pe Re CY The Salvation Armv (known generally among workers as the Star ion Army) announees tt it has now found way to keep all sta workers who come to it for charity crumbs, from getting two crumbs instead of the only one they have a right to. It is going to feed all starving workers at one and the same half hour, | so that none of them wilf be able to rush to another Salvation bread line for a second hand- out. Mrs, Irving T. Bush, of Bush Terminal fame (an exploitation center in Brooklyn where unskilled worker, boys and girls work away their lives for $4 to $10 a week) has announced that she has decided not to give away in YMCA meal | tickets to the unemployed, the $70,000 she was taken out of her pile of gold for this purpose. She anounces that she has been convinced by expert charity institutions that this was not necessary. By which she means that it's not necessary for the unemployed to eat, and that it is more necessary to give the money to over- stuffed, highly paid, exnert charity hounds, w just must have filled bellies and plenty of mone} in pocket. Starving workers and farmers—this is the | news of the day. Insults instead of food is what | the immensely rich hand out to us. They laugh | at us while we starve, while our babies cry for milk and die for the want of it. We've got to join hands, organize, demonstrate by the tens of | thousands and shove this. fakery with which they hope to sidetrack our demands for bread and unemployment insurance back down their throats. Instead of tightening our belts, we'll tighten our ranks. We'll increase our number of Unemployed Councils and swell our ranks and sharpen our militancy. We want bread and we want millions of dol- ters from the milfomrires ard their governmert to get it with. February 10 will be another fighting day, upon which the workers in large and small industrial centers will fill the streets and public places by the tens of thousands, de- manding food, fuel, clothing, shelter. Poor | farmers, march into the villages and demon- | strate, demand relief. Upon this day we will show the capitalist politicians at Washington, D. C., how many workers in all cities demand passage of our Unemployment Insurance Bill. Upon this day we will demonstrate against the wage cuts of employed workers, for shorter working hours, for the organization of the em- nloyed into unions of the Trade Union Unity League. ss Workers, poor farmers, instead of tightening your belts, tighten your ranks and fight and win! | Hane Fascism in Poland Prepares for _’.. War on the Soviet "> “By EDWARD LENO. ia (concluded) ‘Poland lives as on a volcano. The workers’ les are becoming keener, going over from ‘a defensive into an offensive. The clashes be- tween the workers and the police in strikes and especially the ‘struggles of the unemployed, are more and more frequent. It is no exaggeration te, say that in number and militancy of unem- ‘ » struggles,. Poland surpasses all other Pexoean gountries, + & the agrarian policy of fascism (it is characteristic that Pilsudski was forced to issue an order that the land surveyors should be r by the police when they go to the vil- -lages to survey and measure the land). Besides these, are the mass actions like the firing of properties in West Ukrainig and the militant tax strikes in West White Samsia. “As a response to this, fase are being already the police in Zaviertzie; the fac soldiers defetided workers’ demonstra- tions against fascist bands in Fabianitz and Minsk-Maczovietzky; mass distribution of the _Communist military paper “Kashari” (Armory) “in the armories; resistance to the bad food and _ ill-treatment in the army; the singing of the * “Thternationale” by recruits on the .Warsaw- | they are preparing the revolutionary outlet of of war against the Soviet Union, which imper~ ialism, with France at the head, is preparing. ‘There is, in France, a permanent Polish Mili- tary Commission, with the purpose of purchas- ing war-materials, and in Cherbourg there is functioning a permanent Polish military base. The wild terror against the revolutionary workers and farmers plays a very important part in these war preparations. The fascist dic- tatorship with its growing bloody terror, aims not only to suppress the resistance of the work- | ing masses to the fascist plans (murderous capi- | talist rationalization, destruction of all workers’ | achievements, arbitration policy, fascist tax and agrarian policy, national destruction policy in | the occupied Ukraine and White Russian coun- | ties with regard to the national minorities), but also to insure, to secure the military background positions in readiness for the war now preparing. | But they do not take into account the most important factor. The working masses of Poland are becoming revolutionized more and more, and the crisis through an armed uprising against the fascict dictatorship. ‘The general slogans of the Communist Party and especially the slogan of armed uprising and of turning the imperialist war into a: civil war against the bourgeoisie, are becoming more and more popular among the Polish working masses, If Pilsudski this time produced the “miracle” that in the massacred sections of West Ukraine’ and White Russia, almost 100 per cent of the votes were given for him in the last election, this is merely a “victory” that can fool nobody. Let the same oppressed worker and farmer masses get guns in hand, and they will know what to do, It is characteristic that alreddy after Pilsud- ski's “victory,” there were sharp actions of work- ers against Pilsudski’s war preparations against the Soviet Union (in Jiradov, Warsaw, Lodz, etc.), actions whcih ended with bloody clashes and victims op both sades. The bloodhounds of Polish fascism’ are mis- ‘DAIWORK.* taken in their belief that they will succeed in “pacifying” the military rear position. The Po- lish proletariat and especially the Ukrainian and White Russian working masses, which are now being terrorized, will be the most loyal allies of the Soviet Union in case of imperialist anti- Soviet war, The revolutionary forces of Poland are grow- ing. Hence the frenzy and bestiality of the fas- | cist terror. It is the task of the internationa: working class to support and help the heroic Communist Party of Poland in its revolutionary struggle in one of the most important positions of the world revolution. International capital makes Poland a forepost of its intervention 60 East nxymenery coger tt QUESTIONS AND| ANSWERS The Daily Werker will answer in this col- umn questions which are sent in to its Work- ers Correspondence Department. Question—How would it be possible for the Daily Worker to come out every day with six pages?—E, F. : This would add about $100 a day to our ex- penses. If we could pay off the deficit which now exists, this would make possible.a six-page paper. As it is we have a hard time financially getting out the four-page paper. The $30,000 drive is to pay off the deficit and keep us going. If we want to keep our Daily and want a six- page paper. we should get behind this drive. Question—Where ca I get those books that | Comrade Foster wrote about in last Saturday's (Jan. 19) Daily, and how much?—J. B. ‘The books were: Labor and Textiles, by Dunn and Hardy; Labor and Coal, by Rochester; La- bor and Lumber, by Todes; Labor and Automo- biles, by Dunn, and Labor and Silk, by Hutchins. Write to the Workers’ Library Publishers, Box 148, Station D, New York City (their bookstore is lgcated at 50 E. 13th St. in New York). Each book costs $1. These books are loaded with facts which each worker should know. tad Dea Question—Do you really mean to fight for immediate relief and unemployment insurance, or is this just bait to get workers interested in Communism?—W. C. The actions of the Communists speak for themselves, Communists, working day and night, under great difficulties, being beaten up or sent to jail for fighting for relief show in action what | the whole working class must do to lessen its sufferings under capitalism. Anyone who thinks this is bait does not understand Communism or it principles, Communists are the most fearless and disciplined fighters, the vanguard‘ of the working class, whose only interests are those of the toilers, Whether we get unemployment insurance de- pends upon the struggle put up by the working class. Workers will get nothing unless they fight for it; that is the way we gét what little relief we already have. That the workers of England and Germany have unemployment in- surance proves that. the capitalist governments can be compelled to give it. And all must.ad- mit that Communists are the only ones really fighting for relief and unemployment insurance, The Communists fight for these demands right now, and this is but a part of the greater fight finally to establish a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment which will build a socialist society. we Question—What is the Comimtern? Has each country a separate Comintern?—A Daily Worker Reader, “Comintern” is an abbreviation of “Communist International,” which is @ union of all the Com- munist Parties of different countries, a single World Party in which the Communist Poerty in each country is a section in the Comintern, Fight lynching. Fight deperta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference Yor protection of foreign born, | policy against our proletarian fatherland. Let every friend of the proletarian revolution and of the Soviet Union support the heroic struggle of the Polish, Ukrainian, White Russian, Jewish and German workers and peasants in Poland, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Poland—against the fascist dictatorship, against anti-Soviet intervention and war, for a Soviet Poland, for the defense of our Soviet Union! ‘ 4 ees IE CE ey orker Party U.S.A By mail everywh: of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ‘One year, $6: siz mont! $3; two months, $1, sxcepting Borough Foreign: One vear. $$: six montha $4.50. that our bonus? ‘at's Mellon’s tax rebate! Org--A git Prop URING the month of February the Central Committee is organizing two regional Organ- | ization and Agit-prop conferences. The prin- | | cipal task of these conferences is to emphasize | | the importance of improving the structure, the | ; functioning-and the inner life of the Party. | The recent plenum of our Party took verv | sty the question of organizational methods | rik as one of the kev problems in devel- | oning the mass activities Of the Party. In dis- cussing the evestion of the organi=-Honal meth-- | ods in our trade union work, which abolies to | | all fields of our activities, the Plenum resolr-| tion states, “Strong remnents of bureaveratic methods teken over from hte pest (includiny too many and almost complete reliance on n'a | fimetionsries end not enonzh voluntary work), | lack. of discinlined. planned work and check-un results. loose organizational nractiess. insufficient | crystallization of authoritative and resnonsih'e | lead! committees with constant close daily connes‘ion with the masses.” We mnst check un | | how nvich did our organizational stenotre and methods of work imnrove since the Plennm, haw the Plenum resolutions are translated intn Jife, | The Ore-Arit Pron emferanees will be an im- | | Rortent step in this direction, |., Since the Twelfth Plonnm of the OF, the |, Partv hes made imnortant advances in the lead- ershin of mass struveles. esneriolly in. the snhere | of unemnlovment activity. The Party arom. | fzation, esnerieNy in the smaller districts, hes | demonstrated its: willineness and eonsidernhts ability to apply the line and the methods of work outlined by the Twelfth Plenum. Without dealine, for the moment, with all the inadeanacies. shortcomines and weaknesses of our recent activities, it is necessarv at this time to point ont the main /organizational defects re- vealed by our work. =n $ Party Forces Not Orranized Tn most of the cities we disenver that ane ane Hvittes are conducted alinnst entirelv bv the leed- ing Party committee. The District Committee too often replaces the Section Committees and unit bureaus and gives instructions direct to the | membership. “ The District Committees and Section Com- mittees in outside cities handle every sinrle problem and camnairn as a unit, that is. no srbdivision of tasks and activities is develoned with the result thet the availble Partv foress pre utilized to a very low dovres of efficiency. For eramnle, when wmemployment activities are conducted, the work in and around the factories is practically ahandoned. the work amony Nevro masses, women, is stopped, sale of literature dwindles, etc., ete. A Quantity. Replaces Quality While the activity in each district, section and- unit is intensified quantitatively, the results are not satisfactory, the active membership {s over- taxed with work and yet some of the most vital tasks are neglected Skilfull utilization and cor- rect organization of our available forces is re- placed by “forced marches” constant “storm at- tacks”’ and perpetual “emergency mobilization” without any variation of strategy and tactics, without any development of mobility, without any reviews, development of new cadres and higher forms of organization and new methods of attack. Hi “Spontaneous” Political Growth The Porty membershin, faced with rew and ever mroviny tasks! and complicated probioms is notéreceivine a _sysiomatic ‘political and theo- rofieal treininy so as to be able to cone with their problems more effectively. The lower unit, which in the last analysis executses every decision of the Center, has not been adjusted organiza- tionally to carry out the new line of the Party and new methods of work. sg Organized distribution and sale of our im- proted agitational literature is seriously neglect- ed during a period of greatest recentiveness on the nart of the workers for our propaganda. Hun- dreds of new raw proletarian forces are enter- ing our Paty. No systematic and planned use” and development of these comrades is being | 4 slow and haphazard manner. | thermore, the Plenum resolutions and the C.C. made. They remain or leave our ranks quite By BURCK Conferences barriers of bureaucracy. Every army must know | the ‘value of new recruits, must know how to | train and effectively use new fresh fighting forces. Generalization and Sharing of Experiences. The C.C., as well as an increasing number of our districts, are making serious headway in the solution of many of the above problems. Too’) often the solution of the problems proceeds. in | Mistakes. per- s‘st and are repeated. In many respects, this | is due to the fact that our experiences are not | enalyzed, and the proper lessons drawn, Fur- instructions are “forgotten” as the guide for enalyzing our experiences, correcting and pre- venting a repetition of mistakes. « The Party is slowly hammering our correct Polshevik-ereanizational forms and activities in the course of the increasing and sharpening strageles. The regional conferences will be. pre- sented with the results of our recent exneriences, with concrete directives and proposals to fur- ther improve the Party structure and methods of work. From the discussions of the concrete proposals of the C.C, in the light of the rich experiences in the, sections and districts the Party will pro- ‘ceed to carry out its tasks with greater Bol- shevik efficiency. The conferences will not attempt to discuss all problems. In order to make. the discussion and work of the conferences fruitful, we will take up the most pressing problems. The follow- ing points will be the only problems for the consideration of the conferences: « On Organization 1. The unit as the leader of mass struggles: a) “Structure. b) Unit. Bureau. ©) Division of Tasks. d) Unit Initiative. 4 F; e) Political Life of Unit. 2. District and section departments. 3. How shall-a leading committee guide the \ lower units and mobilize them for) their cam- paign? 4, Safeguarding the Party apparatus. ¢ On Agit Prop 1. How to establish and make function the Agit Prop apparatus in the higher and lower units. Ay 2. Inner Party education: a) discussion in the units; b) guidance and methods of ‘self- education; c) development of cadres. 3. Development of new members. » 4, The role of literature in mass agitation. National Organization Department. PARTY LIFE. District Departments . S| NE of the comrades on tour for the Central By JORGE eee That Guy, Again? Heywood Broun has been sorta quiet latel: His column hag been dealing mostly with chorv girls and other relatively innocent subjects. However, connections between the underw: and Tammany officialdom is too tight not get a rise‘out 6f Broun, who all should rem ber as) the recent crndidate on the ~sociai ticket’ arid-"endorsed by all capitalists in the sober senses. Broun is out as a defender of Tammany judg especially those with big bank accounts thc can't explain?’ “It sounds.” says he, “like : enormous Aviount of speculation to say th anybody's brokerage account ran to three millic dollars, But even a comparatively small trad may become*resvonsible for a large sum on tl books throvigh' fairly minor transactions.” So far the idea is to defend Tammany judg: But Broun ges"on to defend Broun, saying: “There have ben years in which my ten shar of this-and my ten shares of that looked ir pressive ‘when’ presented as a total.” The “wai "héssays and that” seems indicate that Broun is unwilling to tell folks j what !earporations he does own shares in would: be “‘iifieénvincing, perhaps, for hin speechify Sha the lamentable lack of ur ployment ‘in the steel industry,when everybo in the“andfence knew that he was drawing tather better ‘dividend than usual from sha of U. & Sek, ‘only because that corporat laid off half it8"workers. But Brbiti Hidkes a.thorough job of defer He also'defends wall Street, bewailing the f that: “Horse racine, for instance, never set entire Community by its ears as Well Street | done of oce"i6i.”. All because a tendency ists to “éonHenitt gambling, Broun figures: c blithely passin¢ over the difference to the ma: between horse’ racing and Wall Street spect tion. ~~ On thisisstiéYof gambling Broun fs right his own “gtouhd, and though he contends t gambling’ 8 @l right and is a “natural instin still Re’ ds’ ‘williig to have it “regulated.” “socialists” "ike" the word “regulation.” It nearly’ asnice as Mesopotamia. Broun is fond of it‘as of poker. But maybe the reasor wants gambling “regulated” is because he $6,400 ‘ina’ poker game some time ago, and a “socialist” ‘te’ lose that much is’ provoca of Mésopotamii—that is to say, “regulation.” ay ee Utterly Baseless It is sucha shame that anybody, not speak of Brig: Gen. Smedley Butler, should | even dreamed that Mussolini is “warlike.” was also-a nasty trick to tell that story a his remark;-“What is one life in the affai a state?”-when his auto ran oyer a child. The dtalian ‘embassy got its back up i General. Butler's speech. Butler has a hab spitting out, what he knows. Not long ag made another Speech in which he said when the Marines went into a Latin Ame: country, the candidate they supported al got electedfor the simple reason that all others*were declared to be “bandits.” The big-bugs in the War Department thc it best to-laugh it off with the comment Butlet..was talking about ancient history not About: Nicaragua. But now the ambassador of Mussolini i: so amiable. Getting up early to “refute’ story. of Mussolini’s war-like procltvities, t! Y. Times tells us that at the embassy: ‘ recalled that he (Mussolini) had emphat denied such intentions in public.” Unfortunately for the cooing dove versi Mussolini, the statement came out simultar ly with the news about Italian soldiery sl tering the natives in Africa. * ee The Second International talks so muck once in a while it says something. Its m in Zurich recently admitted that the onl to abplish unemployment is to establish + ism. . Ui loyment has been abolished : Soviet Union, but darned if you can g¢ Second International social fascists to that socialism is established in the Soviet ° too slow improvement of the Party organ Y This is the case cially. of. gh and Detroit.. Why tr uation?, What, are the principal reasons One of, the most important reasons is found; precisely in the non-existence o1 funétioning of the departments, in the | aiviaiee ofiwork among the members trict Bureau and district committees; lack of devéloping new forces, and dev. section “leadership. One of the reasons for the‘non-existence of the department: their dying‘out is given by the too, fr changes)in the composition of the depart by theifact thdt the organizer doesn’t ¢ necessary)-attention to the functioning departments; does not lead them in thei in order*to develop them in the line of ing, more independently. x Theré: areé.two main wrong tendencics handling of.the de; ents. One tend not to involve’ the bers of departm actually © and/ developing, the w their: respective de rtments. In man: where ‘the: departments do exist they : even consultative bories, because the DOs Sec'ys, are thé’ only executive forces. TI tendéney: ds'approaching the question in : formal, bureaticratie way, that is: Th: setting: ‘ofthe departments and lettir go without: tiving political guidance, a Committee writes in his report among other things: “In all the districts that I visited up to now, with the exception of Chicago and in some instances Detroit. In ‘some cases only a beginning is to be*found....” So in a few lines a whole situation is charact Thts, of course,is an impermissible situation, especially taking into consideration all the in- structions sent from the center to the districts on this matter, all ‘the discussions on the im- provement of the Party structure at conventions’ and Plenums, and conferences; all plans of work elaborated by the districts in which the building of departments was contemplated as one of the key problems of our district apparatus, The districts instead of improving the, apparatus have gone back to the old line where the or- ganizer and organization secretary are the only working machines the district. It is clear function i activities without endeavoring to deve comrades) in the department. It must b once for all:that especially in the district our’ forces “are: wea! the leading funct must participate in the work of the depa Jead) ‘help’ teach them how to wo: in dentiy;to develop their own in. “We Will tale up this vital organizatio lera ‘cf our Patty structure in the Part izer, byt this cocs not mesn that thi comm} be passive until the; is, or shall wait for a on tis problem in order to task ih’ 1 Gecisions were already m: timesasat the last convention, at ‘organization eonferen the ‘departments are not functioning existing, “the district. committees mi i ‘that the building “of dep ie Pi inet ilar iftmctioning is one of th sit