The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1931, Page 4

Page Four . Tele} hone Algonquin 79 1 checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. OUR NEW PIONEERS MAX BEDACHT. | agitation are our among the ec educt- capitalist list. goose- re not satis- tional institu- e created large institutions like » Y. M. C. A, ¥. W. | the workers’ child | th of a capi- importance and value of er the playful forms ms of in- it is pos- mind all the Ipstead of for the in- ‘e and especially for the ism Horat: es them. of capite in direct contradiction, to romances, the workers’ | 1S nto the illusion of the justice, evolence of capitalism, and espe- idual capitalists, Faithful ser- ve is alw rewarded, Vilainy is always punished. The poor the boss’ daughter. The problems of the w er are not solved by strug- gle, but by unreserved submission, undoubting piety and undieing hope. As against this delib- erate poisoning the workers’ parents must con- ves and their develop- ing conceptions with their class position, their class problems and the class problems of the parents. A militant worker who permits his child to be taken in by the Boy Scouts or Girl is deliberately turning his child over to the enemy. The enemy uses this opportunity to child's mind against the interest of and against its owp interest as a ker’s child and as a future worker. The rev- olutionary movement must present the worker parents with organizations in which their chil- dren can be connected up with their lives and their struggles instead of becoming a stranger to them. The Young Pioneers of America is the work- ers’ chi 's organization which must fill this need. . it has not always done so. There w uch of a tendency to make out of the Yo Pioneers a sort of a children’s Communist Instead of being a mass or- ganization of the workers’ children, it became an organization only of a selected few, whose devotio2 to the cause maintained their enthusi- asm even in the face of the fact that none of the natural desires of the children found afiy Satisfaction in the activities of the Young Pio- neer movement. ‘The national leadership of the Young Pioneers of America has now decided to fundamentally change this policy of the past. Play and sport shall no longer be banned from the lives of the Pioneers. -Instead they shall be made the bridge over which class conceptions are conveyed into the minds of the workers’ children. While the Young Pioneers in the future will in a certain Sense compete with the bourgeois children’s or- ganizations by satisfying the cravings of the children for play and sport and general knowl- edge, they will follow an exactly contrary policy from the bourgeois children’s organizations. | of May. | an ability to supply some of these needs with the | scious of the duties. that implies, should help | the National Committee of the Young Pioneers | class. | vey the understanding of the use of these im- “cruit friends among their fellow schoolboys and ‘They will use play and sport and educational - endeavors not to separate the workers’ children from an understanding and support of the in- terests of its worker parents, but to connect the child with such an understanding. A most important role in this work will have to be played by the Pioneer magazine. The new Pioneer magazine shall become the educator and guide of the masses of workers’ children which will be organized in the Pioneers of America. Children’s stories shall convey a picture and understanding of the real life of the working Directions in the field of mechanical en- deavors, such as radio. building, airplane con- struction, etc., shall not only give technical ad- vice to the workers’ children, but shall also con- plements under capitalism and the value of these implements for the working class. lustrations, simple and politically. explana- tory drawings, cartoons, ete. shall:-capture the interests of the workers’ children for political problems and problems of the class struggle and shall explain these problems to them. So- cial, hygiene, sports, nature study, sciences, in short, all fields of knowledge for which the work- ers’ child craves, shall be dealt with in the new Pioneer magazine, but it shall be dealt with in such a form as to convey to the workers’ child materialist conceptions of life and. an under- standing of its class position and its class duties, ‘The new Pioneer magazine shall not only be published for the workers’ children, it shall also be written and made up largely by the workers’ children. Aside from generdl children’s corres- pondence, the Pioneer groups for learning to draw, or for studying scientific questions, or for sport endeavors, or for any of the possible ac- tivities of the Pioneers, shall be encouraged to | have their best products published in the Pione¢r magazine and to use the Pioneer magazine for exchange of experiences and for guidance of the backward by the advanced. The first issue of this New Pioneer Magazine is to appear at the end of April for the first Artists, doctors, educators, engineers, writers, in short, everyone that has a clear un- ders€anding of the workers’ children’s needs and definite aim of makigg the workers’ child con- scious of its being a workers’ child and also con- to make possible the issuance of the New Pioneer Magazine. Financial as well as*technical help is needed. The Pioneers themselves must mobilize to re- girls, as well as among their adult acquaint- ances for a serious effort to perfect the prep- arations in time for the First of May publication of the New Pioneer Magazine. Every militant working class parent, every or- ganization that contains militant working class | parents, must consider this reorganization of the Pioneers and publication of the New Pioneer Magazine as an important event in the life of the revolutionary working class of America. The Catholic church has long ago seen the value of children and has formulated this knowledge into the sentence: “Give me the child up to 12 years and you can have it the rest of its life.” During the period of childhood, the{ concep- tion of life grows and develops in the young worker. If we permit capitalism to hammer and mould its conception of life into our chil- dren, we have the tremendous task of counter- acting this influence, a task which often re- mains unaccomplished. Forward to the road to a real children’s mass organization for the Young Pioneers of America! Forward in the New Pioneer Magazine! Capitalist Attitude of Sacramento City Council N January 27, 1931, a series of demands were presented to the mayor and the City Council of the city of Sacramento, by members of the Unemployed Council of this city. Upon their presentation the delegates were in- formed by the city clerk that they would be brought up in the next meeting which was to take place on the 5th of February. These demands for local relief were indorsed by the Unemployed Council at the demonstsra- tion on Oct. 27, 1930, and also for the State Relief as proposed. and adopted at the Hunger March before the State Capitol January 7, 1931. ‘The conditions which led up to these demands were obvious. AS high as 700 men have slept at the Center in one night. They sleep on the floor, no blankets, and are so tightly wedged, in that there is never a night but what from seven to twenty men have to stand up all night . Seven men have died at the Center in five weeks, sanitary conditions are terrible. And of course, all workers know the Salvation Army “soup lines,” with their attendant woodpiles, which is another source of income for these parasitic grafters on the suffering of their fellow men. On February 5, 1931, a delegation of twenty- five members of the Unemployed Council of the city of Sacramento went to the meeting of the City Council to see what action was to be taken by that body. The speaker of the committee took the floor at the earliest opportunity and demanded that action be taken on these issues. He was informed that this would follow in due course. After a few minutes of city business it ‘was proposed by one-of the councilmen that the matter of these demands be taken up. The city clerk read off these demands and immediately the city manager jumped to his feet and pro- payed that these should be placed on “file.” He gave for his reason that it would cost the city too much money, and that »s he in- fevred, the unemployed men who slept at the Center were nothing but “finaters” v to California to escape the rigors of winter. That she city would be unable to care for them ade- quately, as they had too many of the voters of Sacramento to take care of. He also waved the “Stars and Stripes,” figuratively speaking, in stating that most of these men were “for- eigners” and had nothing to do with the devel- opment of the country. A move was rhade by the mayor to have this move “seconded” and thus automatically shelve the entire demands. but the speaker interrupted these proceedings and took the floor. He immediately pointed out where the bedding of these men would cost the city nothing, as they could use the cots and blankets which are part of the equipment of the National Guard Te ieee Basic ay if taken “é | eratioris of forefathers. . mean a decided saving in cost. He also, pointed out what was being done in El Paso; Texas along these lines, and showed that they had made a decided saving due to the elimination of graft. Then turning to the city manager he proceeded in the most vitriolic terms in denouncing him for his statement about “floaters” and “foreign- ers.” “He pointed out that at least 67 per cent of the men at the Center are citizens of Sacra- mento and that 84 per cent of these men were veterans of the last war, and came from gen- He also pointed out cases of destitution and evictions amdng the “home-guard which the Unemployed Council had handled and in no uncertain terms asked if this was the way the city manager fed and housed his own people. mento, and that 8 per cerit of the men at the; Play ‘n the drive. To sum the matter up there was not a single point in the city manager's talk but what was emphatically and definitely squashed. The outcome of the whole affair was that the demands were finally “filed”’and the dele- gation-went back to the hall. - ‘The demands are as follows: 1. That a committee of 26 elected by the workers who stay in the Center will admin- istrate all food supplies or meal tickets, distribu- tion of beds and blankets, and in general have control over the Center. The committee to give weekly reports of their activities to all the workers at a general meeting. mittee) each meal ticket to be at least 25c. 3. That a cot and three blankets be supplied to every worker by the City Council. “ 4. That sufficient hot water with plenty of soap and two towels be given to and every worker. More wash basins to be . 5. That the Center be open posal of the workers from 6. That workers who vation Army be paid union eur gk frision of Ast hiues 7. That workers ation center should day off each week minimum wage of 8. That free m day to prevent the growing danger of workers dying of pneumonia and oth« 9. That two tables of the for every worker te ee ee 2. That three meal tickets each day be given | to every worker by the City Council (or com- | munist Party is their paper, which needs their Daily, qorker SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By matl everywhere: One year, $6; six months $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, Mew York Ctiy. Foreign; one year, $8+ six months, $4.50. er nn on ee) Conducted by the Organization Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A. EXPERIENCE IN ORG WORK IN CHICAGO DISTRICT Under this heading a serles of short ar- ticles will be printed, giving experiences in the Chicago District, as well as suggestions and opinions developed in the course of the work, that will be available for all districts. Tasks of the Shep Papers in the Recruiting Drive By F. B. In the general outline on how the Drive shall | be conducted, the necessity was pointed out for concentrating our activities especially in the shop, mills, mines, etc., and,in the mass ofgani- zations on the basis of class struggle; the nec- essity for the shop nucleus to approach singly their fellow workers in the factories that are near to our Party and known as fighters, as sympathizers of our nfiovement; those workers that are known to have voted for our Party; the necessity that~the street unit shall con- centrate their energies on the shops assigned to them, approaching the workers with whom they have already established connections and other workers who are known to our connec- tions; the necessity that parallel with the in- dividual approach to the workers the units shall collect information about the situation in the shops in order that special leaflets may b2 is- sued where no shop papers are published, which will help the comrades in their work of recruit- ing new members; the necessity that the shop papers shall become a real organizer in the Lenin | Recruiting Drive inside the shops, appealing to the workers in the factories to join our Party. From this simple outline immediately springs forward the big role that the shop papers must ‘The shop papers are, so'to say, the vanguard in the activities of our units in their approach to workers in the shops. They predare the ground for the approach of indivi- dual workers, sometimes of groups of workers. The results of the Lenin Recruiting Drive will depend in great measure on the way the shop papers will deal with the specific problems of the workers in the shops. The issuing of the Fs were r By BURCK pei awe » | | \ oo foe Party does not win the confidence of the by the use of force against the working class. | Trust is gradually inspired by the pralonged | work of the Party among the masses, Thanks to the soundness of the Party policy, the Party is able to convince the masses by their own ex- perience that its policy is sound, thus insuring the support of the working class and. inducing the broad masses of the workers to follow its shop papers must become a real activity of the , units, the instrument of the units in reaching the workers in the shops where the units are existing or street units are concentrating. Our shop vapers will succeed in preparing the ground for apnroaching workers in the factories, -mills | and mines only if the workers will find: that the shop papers really refiect the conditions in the shops, speak their language, bring forth their aims, discover all the mistreatment by the bosses, absence of safety devices, etc., will put forward the immediate demand of the workers and show them how they shall organize, and the ~struggle shall be conducted for reaching these demands. “4 4- in this way that the masses In the shops, mines, mills, etc., will understand that the shop papel. issued by the factory nucleus of the Com- support, for which they shall write, will under- stand that the shop paper is the organizer ir the specific shop, mill, mine. It is in this way that the more class conscious worker will come near to us and, arproached by their fellow work- er—the members of the units—will understand the necessity of uniting their forces to those of our comrades of the units, to become mem- bers of the Party. I nthis way in general the influence of the Party in all factories, mines and mills thru the activity of the units, of which the. issuing of the shop paper is part, will steadily grow. The appeal that the shop papers issue for joining the Party must arise from the. conditions in the shops, the necessity of strengthening the nucleus, whose task is to organize and lead the workers in their daily struggle for immediate demands, preparing in this way the masses for the biggset struggle of the future, for the strug- gle for their complete emancipation from capi- talist exploitation, 1n which the nucleus will really play the role of the general staff of the in recreation center Workers in the specific shops, mills and mines, $9 'take. power over it is clear that the confidence of the. workers— E PARTY LIFE | Sec. 5, Dist. 2, Challenges Sec. 2 in Lenin Drive By J. LASTIG. working class in the twinkling of an eye or lead.” This is ‘what: Lenin wrote. From the above and therefore recruiting new Party .members— can be won by the Party only if we have a cor- rect Party line, and if we work ceaselessly, diligently, systematically. We, the Party, have the first prerequisite; we | have a correct political line. We can not say the same about the second prerequisite; our Party members and even the leading committees —I am speaking mainly on section seale—are either not doing planned, systematic work, or not carrying out their elementary Party duties. Just to cite one example. At the last fraction meet- ing of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, out of the over 300 Party members in Section 5, only 60, or one-fifth showed up. This is so much more impermissible, for the dress makers are facing a hard struggle. Planned, Systematic Work Necessary. In connection with every phase of our ac- tivity, planned and systematic work is necessary to gain organizational results. This holds true to the Lenin Recruiting Drive as yet, which has to be linked up with all of our activities. We have to carry on our agitation, propaganda and organizational work where the masses are, * Where Are the Masses? Even now, in the time of grave economic crisis the whole Lenin Recruiting Drive must be based firstly and mainly on the shops, because the majority of the workers are there and because “we have to make every factory our fortress.” In view of this the Section Committee of Sec- tion 5 decided to give as the major task to or- ganize 3 shop nuclei in the section during the campaign in the following factories: Catfed and . Hammer, R. Hoe and Giant Laundry. Definite units are assigned to concentrate on these fac- tories, Work Amongst the Negro Workers This very important work was criminally ne- glected in the Section in the past. In connec- tion with the drive certain units received names and adresses of Negro workers living in the ter- ritory of the units with the instruction to visit them, approach them on the basis of their griev- | lagging behind. ances and orranize them into a branch of the, Teague of Strurele for Negro Rights. The Sec- tion Committee decided to oreanize at least two branches of the LSNR and get 20 Negroes into the Party. Work in Tnemnloved Conneits, ‘We have in our. Section three Unemployed conneils. One of them—1622 Ratheste Ave — tinetons antie well. The other two, rether nnar- Ww, The renenn is, that in the Rathente Ave, Ponmetl we have a gnod Pasty core which we Jonk in the ether two, ‘This mnet he remadiad, hy sanine to it that the enmrades attached to thoea, enrmnils attend the meetings and nert- cinate in the work, ‘The Parte hag an eveniiont chance to win the confidence of the imemnloyed hy charnianing thair priavnnnse fichHre with them for bread. shelter, clothing, immediate Te- lief and social insurance. During the camnaien we want to Increase to hundteds the members of the Unemvloyed Coun- ceils and to recruit, through our fractions the best, most revolutionary, most courageous, most devoted and class conscious elements into the Party. Lenin Drive and the Dress Strike Hundreds of our members are working in the dress industry. Thé dress makers will be called to fight against their intolerable conditions, for concrete, immediate demands. In this fight the Party must lead the workers to victory and must, be the first on the picket line, we must know how to lead, how to retreat, how to settle the struggle. During the fight every single Party member must Keep personal touch with as many strikers as possible and talk to them every day about the strike development and about all his prob- lems, become not only his political leader, but his personal friend as well and try to elevate him, or her to the Party level. Select the best ele- ments from amongst the strikers for the Party, Work in Mass Demonstrations Many of our Party members work in different mass organizations. International Workers’ Or- der, Workers Clubs, ILD, FSU, WIR, ete. In many cases the Party members are “just or- dinary members” in these organizations instead of being leaders by giving political leadership to the non-Party members. In other words they are not marching at the head of the masses, but In many other cases, the Party members want to control the organizations by commanding to the members, which tactic is not revolutionary, but counter-revolutionary. Lenin said in this question: “. . . {t does not mean that the non-Party | organization should be formally subjected to the Party. All that is required is that the Party members who belong to this organization should | use their influence and all their arts of persua- sion to bring these non-Party organizations into the closest proximity to the Party and to lead them to place themselves of their own: free will under the political guidance of the Party.” Following this Leninist method of work we will mark great successes in our work in mass organizations. So much more, that with the sharpening of the class struggle with the sim- ultaneous division of class lines in the mass or- ganizations, we can lead the majority of the members on the class struggle in their own in- terest against the petty bourgsois and social | fascist elements. On the basis of the above plan we feel con- fident to “beat” in the Socialist Competition | Section 2 and will be able to fulfill our share and task in this drive. Other articles will be written how to keep, how to educate, etc, the new members. Organize Unemployed Councils!) Every Mining Camp, Steel and Textile Town, Every . Large and ‘Small: Indus- ' trial Center Should Be Honeycombed With Jobless Councils Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party 0 8 A P.O. Box 87 Station D, New York ‘City. Please send me more information on the Cum- munist Party. \ | Cross. | the richest country in, the world should supply By JORGE “To All Sailors of the Seven Seas” Under this title, a deep-sea lad writes us his idea of the appeal broadcast on behalf of the Red Cross (an organ of the government) “to all ships on the seven seas.” The broadcast was sent Feb. 11, from the Hotel | Astor banquet halls at a dinner of the “Veteran Wireless Operators’ Association,” which seems to | be more or less under the thumb of the Radio Corporation of America. The president of that | capitalist concern operated the master key at the ceremony, anyhow, the key being linked up with the world-wide.long,and) short wave trans- mission system of the» RysG.-A., the U. S. Navy, The Mackay Company.and..the transmitter of the N. Y. Times. 7), os The call to contributeta,the Red Cross, as correctly outlined by\ounysaflor reader, should | have read as follows: “During the war, saiolrs, we were damned glad to get you. Many of-your shipmates died. But times have changed. Last week the U. S. Immigration Serviee, with the help of the Sea~ men’s Church Institute, rounded up quite a lot of you damned alien sailors. About 150 of them will be deported, and that (s just a beginning. | They took up too much space in the breadlines. | However, this week, it has occurred to someone that it would be a good. idea to bum the seamen who have jobs to contribute to the Red (double) As it might seem to. some of you that unemployment insurance, we hereby warn you | that when you come ashore in an American port, you had best leave such ideas in the fo’castle. For if you attend any demonstration you will get | beaten up.” . * Cleanliness, Ine. “Ritzy Society Women,” says the N.Y. Graphic, have determined to clean the streets. Whoa, | there! Wait a minute!, They're not going to do it themselves, exactly. But only boss the job. They have, in their -desperate search to be \ “useful,” organized the “Outdoor Cleanliness As- | sociation of Greater New. York, Inc.,” with head- | quarters in the St. Moritz Hotel, and “at s series | of luncheons and teas they are discussing ways and means,” etc. First they have to find,a. dirty place, which is easy. Indeed, though they may not be aware of it, they're probably sitting on one. “Once | this is determined,” says the Graphic, the squad of men already hired will be set to work. The work itself wil! make a pretty picture, for there will always be a lady ih charge. Each,member has pledged herself to leave her afternoon tea or | matinee to take charge of a group of cleaners.” . This solves that old question: Who will do the | dirty work under socialism? Only we might add, that instead of supervising the job, we will have these Ritzy and vicariously industrious parasites | with their satin gowns pinned up scrubbing floors | and washing windows and so on, with all the | enthusiasm possible in those who know that if | they don’t work, they won’t eat. Maybe that will be “forced labor,” but we “won't care a hang! What Next? | The “Forward,” noted as the most stupid and | venomous anti-Soviet: sheet in America—bar none, claims to be a “sogfalist” organ, and cer- tainly enjoys the support of the so-called “so- | cialist” party. | It also enjoys the support of the once-ptogres- | sive but now wholly reactionary “Workmen's Circle.” It seems, from @ clipping sent in by a reader, from the organ of the “Circle,” that in | Baltimore a “Forward Ball” was pulled off, at which a pageant was given, described as follows | in “The Friend,” the organ mentioned of the | Workmen's Circle: ° “The Laeta Junior Club showed an entirely different scene. One-girl-was dressed as the Statue of Liberty, draped in an American flag. The other girls represented different nationali- ties and were kneeling the statue look- ing up to it. The sign ie statue—‘Social- ism, the hope of the \d’—told the story.” Yes, indeed, it did tellthé story! But there's | more. In the I. W. W. paper, “Industrial | Worker,” of Feb: 7a long and mournful tale of an attempt to organize the unemployed by the wobblies and Lovestoneites in Baltimore, reveals the fact that the Workmen's Circle in that burg is controlled by the followers of the redoubtable Jay. Which accounts, - doubtless, for “Socialism, the hope of the world,” being pinned on the Statue of Liberty draped in an American flag, with all the nations of the world doing it reverence. The Soviet Union is not only. absent, it simply don’t exist What next? : 2 id Embargoes A reader of the N. ¥ World writes to that paner, in a typically seditious ironical tone, sug- gesting that Mr. Fish “has ’o¥érlooked something. “Night after night,” he complains, “one hears over the raido the strains of Tschaikowsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff and other Russian composers; the seductive tones of balalaika orchestras and the thrilling notes of Russian singers like Czech- anovski.” Cay q ‘This, he says, has only.one exnlanation. It !s an “intrigue of the, Amtorg,” designed to “under- mine and subvert the growing and spreading Amovicon musical cust in a word, to obliter- ate jazz,” It is some time since the painful yowls of patriotism was pe! the welkin ring over the destruction of trade by importation of guts, from the Soviet Union, of courte, in the form of sausage casings. But the preservation of American Kulture 1s not without defenders, although it may be rather disappointing, some time, for Mr. Fish, when thoughtlessly crderitig ‘@ cavair sandwich, to be told that Andy Mellon has-Jaid an embargo on it. Perhaps he ban Area peters ati cavair, ; i ( 4 i ¢