The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1931, Page 4

Page Four New York City, N. ¥, Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable: <uvmened ty the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Iné., dally CXCeDE SuNitay, a 50 Nast “DATWORK.” il all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Dail orker = ‘y erty USA . NEGRO WORKERS WILL COME INTO OUR PARTY | is closely linked up with the confusion med above. “If there is white chauvinism , then I must say that there is black rtion has come from | iy this is not true. What | by chauvinism? Chauvinism is the essive attitude and oppression of one nation over another. Can we for one moment seriously in the contention that the Negroes are sively exercising their national rights over the whites? No! What these comrades mean making the charge of “black chauvinism” is that the Negroes in the Party are race conscious as well as class conscious—and this we certainly commend, and not reject. We mus! not forget that the Negroes have keen Negro question as a pure and drawn into our Party, because of our slogan of y” was the pass- eq) and political rights, and certainly the least me comrade put that we must demand from the white comrades we have no race is that the relationships among our comrades be | e we cannot an absolutely equal footing. for the Negroes However, this is not sufficient. And here I Is this correct? want to deal with the incident which occurred in Harlem section headquarters. Some of the comrades understand why it was al- right to p rkers out of the hall in ie it, was wrong “to act the towards the Negroes who were there. We | must understand precisely because we are white | workers who realize that. the Negroes mistrust | the whites because of ages of oppression and | in this © work, we n make no progress in this co one or two poi h were especi sized in the of some of units in Section 4. rp tendency was manifested toward ap- discrimin e | on two methods 1, the antag has been very carefully nur- | sam 1e capitalist Ne- groes ay been’ for ages oppressed b;3 and they have been deceived by various groups of whites who have used and abused them. betrayal, that we must put ourselves out par- | Therefore, the attitude of the Negro workers | ticularly to win the confidence of the Negro toward the whites generally is one of mistrust, | workers, and that an especial approach is neces- towards them. Because we are white work- some tactics of approach which might be permissible toward other white workers, cannot be tolerated towards Negro workers. Why? Be- cause if a Negro worker goes through Harlem and says that the Communists (who are mostly whites) tried to push him out of their hall, it has much greater political significance than if a white worker were to assert, this. Our task is not only to overcome white chauvinism in the Party, but also in the unions | and mass organizations, if we are to build a strong revolutionary movement. With the sharpening of the class struggle the bosses will make every effort to exaggerate the and not merely by putting forth a slogan, that misms between black and white, between we fight in the front ranks for political and foreign born and white, between foreign born social equality of the Negroes with the whites? | and black—and in the face of this we must carry This is not only a class question. We have on | forward ever more intensively our fight for equal the one hand the natural question—the fight | social and political rights of the Negro masses. | for equal rights of the Negroes with the whites, | Our major task in the recruiting drive must | and on the other hand we have the struggle of be to draw in at least 50 per cent of new Negro | the working class, in which Negroes are in- || members in Harlem, and this we will be. able psded, for the overthrow of the capitalist sys- to do if we have a clear conception of Negro m. question, and’ the fight against, and the elimina- and rightly They have not been oppressed only as workers br the capitalist class, as is the | cac> with the white workers—but they have also | be: oppressed as Negroes, and discriminated ag>..st by a goodly section of white workers as weil. One white comrade, a very good fighter and devoted to the Party, could not understand why the white workers must be in the forefront of the fight for Negro rights. This also ensued | from his conception of “equality.” And here we must ask, how else are we going to gain the confidence of the Negro masses unless the white worke: in the Party, in the revolutionary unions, in the mass organizations show in deed, THE NEW CHAMPION epomne maememongstbneni SUBSCRIPTION Rates oo Mall evéryWHere: Oné Yéar, $6; six months. $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York Ctiy. Foreign; one year, $8- we six months, $4.50, By BURCK " OSWALD MOSLEY Support the Children’s Magazine By VALENTINE V. KONIN. ROM the time our children are old enough to ‘start a physically independent existence, they | are sold, body and soul, to the enemies of our | class, I don’t know how many mothers realize that when they take their child to. school for. Another point is that of white chauvinism— | tion of, white chauvinism. Only Militant Struggle Can Stop Phila. Cops’ Strike-Breaking Now this gentleman is attempting to stop the workers from fighting for their most elemen- tary necessities of life by issuing orders to arrest any worker who comes out on the picket line. This vampire, who lives on the blood of the workers, and knows nothing about their miser- ies, states that “this is no time to strike.” In the most defiant.and brutal manner he arrests hundreds of pickets daily. On the other hand he smells the approaching elections. He feels that something must be done to “prove his loyalty to the public.” He knows that someone must be made the scapegoat. Thus Mr. Schofield sud- denly starts out on a campaign against a num- ber of police captains, accusing them of bribery and graft. Every day he “discovers” about po- lice captains who while on the police force are also on the payrolls of the bootleggers and red light districts. But Mr. Schofield is mistaken if he thinks he can fool the workers by these “ex- posures.” The workers know that these captains are not an isolated case. It is just.a link of the entire capitalist chain. These captains are part and parcel of the entire corrupted and degen- erated machine called the police department. ‘They are a result of the very system under which we live today in America. These same captains who are being “prosecuted” for graft and cor- ruption are the ones undre whose command hundreds of pickets are being slugged and jailed. These are the defenders of law and order. However, it is not the job of .grafters to clean out corruption. Mr. Schofield will not and can- not do it. To clean out the graft is only possible through the cleaning out of the very system which creates it. This is the job of the work- ers. Against the attack of the bosses the workers must unite their ranks. The workers must or- ganize militant industrial unions. The workers must sweep aside the A. F. of L. fakers who under the pressure of the workers pretend to fight these politicians but in reality unite with them to fight the workers. The workers must build and become members of the political party of the workers, the Communist Party, and under the slogan, smash the strike-breaking policies of the bosses and their government, carry on a bit- ter and stubborn struggle against the bosses and all their agents within the ranks of the workers. By BILL LAWRENCE. HE increasing strike movements in Phila- delphia and the determination of the workers to fight out their right to live is throwing fear into the hearts of the watchdogs of the Phila- delphia bosses. The workers realize today that if they are to stop the wide sweep of wage-cuts and.the attacks of the bosses, they must apply the only weapon with which the workers can fight, and this is—strike. For months the leaders of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers played the game of flirting with the textile barons, and preventing the workers from open struggle against the bosses. Timé and again they tied the hands of the workers by various legalities and agreements, thus giving time to the bosses to rob the workers and pre- pare their machinery to fight these workérs more effectively when the clash does take place. However, the pressure was too heavy. The will of the workers for open struggle rached a point where the A. F. of L. leaders were forced to give in, or take the consequences and be thrown out through the window, as happened at one of the meetings when the president of the U. T. W., McCann, in trying to fool the workers once more, was faced with a motion by a textile worker, and seconded by the rest present, “to throw the president out of the window.” Soon after the strike broke out in Kensington another battle took place, This time it was the dressmakers, under the leadership of the mili- tant Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. At the same time the unemployment in Phila- delphia reached number. Today over 300,000, which is one-seventh of the Philadelphia total population, is unemployed, and many more are working part time. The response of these work- ers to the call of the T. U. U. L. on various occasions has convinced the bosses and their lackeys that these workers are not going to sit down and wait for the crumbs the bosses’ insti- tutions will throw them once in a while. On the other hand the bosses see a danger in wait- ing. ‘They have realized that they must act and defend their interests. They understand that it is no time to play around with nice phrases of democracy. To hell with democracy when the bosses’ profits ere in danger. ‘The first explosion was made by Mayor Mac- key. He gave the signal. In a speech over the he attempted to bulldoze the workers with Red scare. He spoke of the Communist riots and the French revolution. He warned the unemployed and those still working that he and luis capitalist government will not tolerate or- genization and demands of the workers. He. threatened the workers to call the state troopers to quieten their hunger. He made it clear that. he will call state militia if the workers get QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question—Is it true that an automobile fac- tory is in course of erection in the Soviet Union; ~if so, please inform me if this auto factory is owned and operated by the Ford Motor Co. or too aggressive and demand bread for theif fam- | by the State?—L. Q., West Virginia. flies. / At present a large plant is operated in Moscow ‘This speech was followed up by Director of | called “AMO.” While the Soviet Government Public Safety Major Schofield. The magor gave has made an agreement with the Ford Motor the signal—the director got into action. This |Co. for which they have paid a sum of gentleman, who is getting officially $12,000 per | money to the Ford Co. for technical : year (unofficially—?) while thousands of chil- | in the construction of the automobile plant, and dren are daily without milk, is aiming at the | for the patents of its automobile construction, high windows. He got into office as a result | the Ford Motor Co. is acting merely as a paid of a developed struggle within the corrupted Vare machine. He represents the wealthy Mit- ten corporation, which is fighting for the con- trol of the city. Prior to his taking office, while being yet an assistant district attorney, and sup- posedly representing the city against the Mitten epenin | in fart attempts to control it, he was wt, the time on the payroll of the Mitten engineering expert for the Soviet Union. The plants are completely owned and controlled by the Soviet Union. No immediate plans are being made for the construction, of another auto plant near Mos- cow. However, two automobile assembling plants are being built at present in Nizhni Novgorod, which also have the technical assistance of the ‘and ‘controlled * the first time they are creating the first gap | between the sympathies of working-class pa- rents and theit child, From that moment on, | every possibility is utilized for moulding the child | into an efficient and obedient supporter of the boss in his exploitation of the working masses. Every means, every minute, every force is at the disposal of thé bosses. The schools are their mouthpiece. The text books are cut and changed to suit their orders. The teachers are their robots. They are told what to say, or else they are asked to get out, The magazines and books that the children are given to read are crammed with vicious, militaristic propaganda. Their after-school organizations, boy scouts, girl guides, etc, are remarkably efficient training schools for cannon fodder in the coming imperialist clashes. School and home radios broadcast talks on patriotism, and slander all critics of existing society. Movies flash distorted faces of colonial or working class villains, and florify the role of a Yankee marine butchering the native for his attempt at freedom. And what does the work- ing class have to offer that can resist the pressure of such powerful propaganda? Our Children’s Magazine will be the first chal- lenge to the poison of capitalist propaganda. It will be a magazine for working-class children, written from the viewpeint of working class fighters. In interest, it will not only compete with, but will surpass the stale literature of bosses’ opium on which children are fed. It will catch and hold the child’s interest by stories, pictures, puzzles, sports and other features. It will make hig: conscious of the fact that he is a part of the exploited class of our society. It will be the first important step towards eman- cipating the minds of working-class children from the clutch of capitalist ideology. It will be the foundation for the militancy of the com- ing generation of workers. Working-class pa- rents! Working-class children! Support the Children’s Magazine! Write and send contributions to Youung Pio- neers, P. O. Box 28, New York City. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. 8. A. P. O, Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Oum- munist Party. NAME .-ocsesescesscsscccccsccscosscesse: Address . City .. OLCUPALION ...eseeeeeesererereeeee Age .. «Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. Organize Unemployed Councils! Every Mining Camp, Steel and Textile Town, Every Large and Small Indus- trial Center Should Be Honeycombed With Mid-Western Org-Agitprop Conference By R. B. Y bee Org-Agitprop Conference of the mid- western districts clarified a whole series of key problems and created a, firmer basis for the improvement of the Party organization as thé leader. of the multiplying mass struggles. The Conference confined its discussions to the inner+ Party education, development of cadres) néw members and literature, connecting however all these problems with the day-to-day activities of the Party. The discussion on the work of the basic unit, the unit buro, departments of Party committees, planned work and methods of leadership re- flected the fact that our District. and Section Committees are paying close and systematic at- tention to these problems and that considerable improvements in the structure and work of the Party are being achieved. ‘The discussions on Agitprop activities, however, indicate that this vital activity is still in its most elementary stage of development and ser- iously affects the successful carrying out of the activities and campaigns of the Party. Some Org Problems. ‘The conference established that our Party has not carried into effect the Org Resolution of the 8rd Congress of the Comintern, the Resolution on Bolshevization of the C. I. Parties adopted at the 4th Congress of the C. I, the resolutions of the second Org Conference of the C. I. beld in April, 1926. Further the Conference clearly proved that the above resolutions are but little known even to our leading Party Committees. Consequently the present attempts to improve the structure of the Party in line with the needs of the growing mass activities does not pro- ceed on the basis of a clear and uniform plan provided by the Comintern. Social democratic forms, practices and con- ceptions are still present in the Party and par- ticularly’ express themselves in the lower units and departments of Party committees. Basic Unit of the Party. While the Conference established the role, tasks, structure and methods of work of the basic unit, the discussion revealed a whole series of social democratic conceptions and practices still in existence. ‘The discussion emphasized the discrepancy be- tween the activity, initiative and influence of a Party unit in a small town and a, Party unit in a large city. The Party unit in a small city (where usually there is but one unit) actually plans, prepares and leads the struggles of the Workers and conducts work on its own initiative even though this work is only of. an elementary nature. The unit in a large city like Chicago, Detroit or Cleveland, however, functions solely as a working group that carries out the instruc- tions in most cases of the District Committee. In either ofithe cases the Unit Buro may not function; however in the small city the geog- raphic isolation from the District puts before the unit the problem of developing’ its own ini- tiative and activity within their territories. \ The Unit Buro. \ The task of developing the initiative of the lower unit revolves around the establishment of unit buros and the clarification of the role of the Unit Buro. In most of our districts the con- ception prevails that the unit buro is a sub- committee of the unit that prepares the agenda for the unit meeting on the basis of all too- detailed org letters and instructions from the District Committee. ‘The Conference established that the Unit Buro is a leading Party committee in the same sense as the Section Comimittee or the District Com- mittee, that the Unit Buro is elected every six months and composed of the best comrades in the unit. The Unit Buro subdivides its tasks on a departmental basis and selects the unit func- tionaries to be in charge of the various phases of activity. The Unit Buro meets weekly, plans the activities of the unit for the given week and assigns tasks to ail unit members for the ‘week. ‘The Unit Buro draws up a plan of work for the unit outlining the tasks of the unit in the given territory or factory. The Unit Buro makes decisions that are binding on the members of the unit. The functioning Unit Buro carrying out a concrete plan of work in its given ter- ritory or the factory under proper and correct, guidance of the Section Committee, is the key to the development of the initiative and effec- tive work of the basic units of the Party. (The problems of departments of the Party Commit- tees, Plans of Work, Org Letters and methods of leadership will be taken up in separate articles.) Hosiery Strikers Are Militant Despite Terror spite of the mass arrests and the strjke- r breaking order against picketing, the hosiery i The’ officials claim this would be: against the Jaw! However, it js not cgainst the law for the manufacturers to break the agreement. The of arbitration. At this very moment while the officials of the F.F.H.W.U. advocate arbitration, two thousand carpet. weavers are on strike egainst an arbitration decision of a 14 per cent wage cut. Strike Breaking Police. Sensing the danger of the militancy of the _ Workers the police issued an order against pick- eting. ‘This is no time to strike,” declared Mr. Schofield, director of public safety. who now dare to strike for ‘better con- “are declared by the police to be “in- Wholesale arrests therefore take place, only of textile strikers but also of needle ‘kers now on strike. ! administration is following an open ot. only stopping all struggle in the it period of unempicyment, but actually unemployed to lower the standards of all workers. Unemployed are sent to city jobs and jobs provided by private and firms, but are being paid from the Lloyd Relief Com- Noise, officials raised much noise about . ‘strike-breaking order of the police. They immediately went into conference with politi- ciahs arid sent a delegation to Governor Pinchot. ‘The ruling class, especially the clever demagogue Pinchot, sensed the growing militancy of the workers, whom the union officials will be un- able to control and made a gesture by withdraw- state hand and “criticizing” Schofield. thy i g ESE ile i | trocutie, could only find place on page 2, how- | what Kd Gfonte Of Great Importance “Gun Girl and Pal Die in Chair!” screeches great headlines across the front pages of New York capitalist pa The N. Y. Telegram which, in relative modesty, nevertheless gave a “front page top play” with a photo of the elec- ever, without any headline, for the following: William Withnal, 65, who had been ‘unem- ployed for several months, committed suicide today by gas at 353 W. 2lst St.” Two columns of type and a picture, concern- ing a murder case of the remotest social signifi- cance. Two lines of type, hidden away as an unimportant “filler to fit into a chance spacé between big stories or to leace out entirely if there happened to be no such space—for ‘a worker, 65 years old, who must have giveti~at least forty years. of toil to capitalist society, and who, still obedient to its ethics, accept its -ver« dict of death to worn-out slaves. This sort of thing is deliberate on the part of the capitalist newspapers. It is consciously done to distort the social outlook of the masses as ta is important and what isn’t. Another brazen example of capitalist press propaganda was given by the N. Y. Times on Feb, 8. “Right in the middle of the front page it gave the following: “Two Soviet Engineers Deprived of Food) Moscow. Orders That No One Employ Ther for Six Months.” ‘The above headline was in big black capitalist letters, and—as noted—right in the middle- of the front page. But it was also in the middle of 10,000,000 jobless wage workers of the United States, and their families; in the middle of mass starvation in the midst of plenty; in the middle of disease and death for the American working class; in the middle of a system where any ¢m- ployer or corporation may literally sentence’ = worker and his babies to death by discharge: Yet the N. Y. Times pretented that alt-this was not af all important! But that two men in Moscow, their being “deprived of food”—ah! that was THE news, the news which should be im- pressed upon the minds of the masses. The capitalist press, when at its worst is vile when at its dignified best is a liar. When you savvy that, workers, you will understand ‘why, under the class dictatorship of the workers, such poison is forbidden to pollute the minds’of the masses, Hurrah for the Gaypayoo! * 2 8 A Strange Phenomenon Unemployment in New York City, according’ te Salvation Army reports published in the Ni Y, ‘Times of Feb. 22 (which is Washingon’s birthday, please note!), is growing worse—“in spite-of an evident willingness on the part of employers to retain as many workers as possible.” Now this is queer. If the employers are “will- ing” to keep workers then why the devil don’t they? One might inquire, of course, how the. dickens the Salyation Army knows the employers . ate “willing.” But the little joker on the tall’of the mystery—as many workers “as posstble”— lets them out. It isn’t “possible” for the employers, perhaps, to continue increasing dividends on watered stock, to continue:spending the winter in-Florida,.. to continue buying the new models (cars and girls), to continue living on the fat of the land— and still retain all their workers. So retaining half of them is all that 1s “pos- sible,” and a wage cut and speed increase to make up for those who are thrown out. Get together workers, employed and jobless to- gether! And let the employers know that you insist on Unemvloyment Insurance from all these employers, whether they are “willing” or not! . 8 A Nice “Quick” War “So many things enter into warfare now-thar a war must be decided quickly,” remarked New- ton D. Baker, secretary of war for Wilson—who “kept us out of war” until he got elected. This is the same identical horse radish which all the Allied and German “experts” peddled:to the world when they went in the butcher business in August, 1914. War is certainly approaching, when ‘iiuperialiss war sharks begin to give us dentists’ advice to “Be quiet and it will soon be over!” For the workers to be made trustful that there.will be no war is a necessary part of war preparation by imperialists. For the workers to be deluded into thinking that their war suffering will be quickly ended, is necessary to imperialist plans when war js once begun or when it appears to them to be inevitable. We prefer to believe, instead of Newton ‘D. Baker, the words of Voroshilov, Red Army. Com- mander, who, on Monday, the 13th anniversary of the establishment of the Red Army, reclared: “International imperialism is preparing fora second World War, bloodier than the first, Above all, they are preparing for intervention against the Soviets.” ~ This obvious truth, mind you, the supposedly “liberal” N. Y. Telegram, calls a “militaristic statement.” But it is silent on the expulsion from the N. Y. City College of a 21-year-old boy who denonced compulsory military training. eo + «@ Oh, But We’re Moral! gts “The law ‘instroduced in Congress for an embargo against goods prodi by con- vict labor or by “forced labor,” has a perfect joke of a “joker” in it. It says that no such goods shall be allowed to. enter the United States, apparently because !% would cause our sensitive souled capitalists to shee eran “shiver all over with disgust at having to. touch, goods produced by such unfortunates. _ But, then, it foes ahead and says, that goods produced by such unfortunates shall not be barred from our fair land “provided”—get that!. vided “they are commodities industries and which cannot be wise than by such importation.” ' oy a Yeah, we are awfully virtuous! We're ,not that kind of a girl! And anyhow, the grass is wet! The great idea behind this joker ts, t! government can bar Soviet lumber, for and claim that it is “produced by. forced But if somebody wants to bar Chan ‘Treasury . Pepartment will issue a ete “opinion” that will say something like, “even though labor conditions are far from {deal, still tec Mmie le Meg gs a e4 By JORGE cence