The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1931, Page 4

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Cable: “DAIWORK.” 4 spe: (he TAsh SR er manthi, $0) (90 Binaliey Chae nae ame Address and mail all checks (o the Daily Worker, 60 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. ‘Conted Rory US.A! & of Manhattan and Bronx, 4 ; : i g ci = eee uae iaed ten i Sn Keep the “Vilnis” in the Hands ot the Revolutionary Workers ittee of the Communist gone into the question the Lithuanian labor nited States, is compelled to time when unemployment is ted States which brings un- working class, when the pening between capital and lidarity is essential the Communist Party . and his followers are Jeadership of the Communist Party the Party from control of d Vilnis, to prevent the line in these organs. s followers having at first con- ontentious questions settled subsequently changed formed a bloc with 1 ferent can make is and his followers are capitulating on before the offensive of the unist Party and the Comintern and are breaking loose from | are endeavoring to take with them as many Lithuanian workers as possible, preparing there- by their complete transition to the camp of the renegades and bourgeois trade union bureaucrats, Taking this into account the ECCT calls all honest class conscious Lithuanian. workers, espe- cially those who were mislead by the demagogy of Pruseika and others but who want to be on the side of the class struggle and the Commu- nist movement to break once and for all with Pruseika and frustrate, as this was done by the shareholders of Laisve, the attempt of the board of directors of Vilnis to tear the paper out of the hands of the revolutionary workers, ECCI calls upon the Lithuanian workers to reply to the capitalist offensive and the attack of the renegades by rallying still firmer around the Communist Party of the U. S. A. and to carry on under its leadership together with the workers of all nationalities, a self sacrificing struggle for the complete liberation of the work- ing class from the capitalist yoke. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL. . Pruseika, Lithuanian Editor Expelled from Communist Party ld action of the Chicago District Control Com- mission, and with the approval of the Cen- tral Control Commission, L. Pruseika, editor of the Lithuanian paper, the “Vilnis,” has been expelled from the Communist Party of the United States of America as an incorrigible right-wing opportunist and as an apologist for the petty-bourgeois elements who are maneu- vering and fighti ainst the influence and leadership of the Communist Party in the Lithuanian workers’ organizations and, espe- cially, among shareholders of the two Lithuanian working-class daily papers, the “Laisve” and the “Vilnis.” In the light of his latest actions and his articles beginning in the April 29th issue of the .” in which he is plainly trying to mis- lead the Lithuanian workers and trying to mob- ilize the shareholders of the “Vilnis” against he the line and policies of the Communist Party, it is clear now that, in connection with the ef- forts of the Party to correct him and to save him for the revolutionary movement, he has played a double role, he has only maneuvered for time in which to continue an under-cover fight against the Party while still being con- sidered a member of the Party. In expelling Pruseika from its ranks, the Communist Party calls upon all class-conscious proletarian elements in the Lithuanian organ- izations to reject with scorn all the rotten petty- bourgeois arguments and maneuvers of the right- wing opportunists and their defenders, and to rally to the support of the only true class struggle policies and leadership, the policies and the leadership of the Communist Party. CENTROL CONTROL COMMISSION, COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S.A. Prosperity Propaganda in Chicago By E, GARDOS. THE election campaign is over, Mayor Cermak is back from his vacation, with things getting down to “normalcy.” It is perhaps normal to the capitalists, but not so for the workers. Since the elections, tens of thousands of workers were jaid off, with more lay-offs, more wage-cuts. to come. But today there is very little said about the workers, in spite of the so-called great vic- tory for labor, of the Fedération News. The workers are beginning to ask what happened to the three main election planks of Mr. Cer- mak—unemployment, taxation and crime. This is what happened: Unemployment: Closing down of soup-kit- chens and flop-houses, the liquidation of the Emerson Emergency Relief Commission and the famous campaign promise of Mr. Cermak, two million dollars appropriation by the county for relief, entirely forgotten. Taxation: The city is facing bankruptcy, with no money to pay the employees. The bankers refuse to give any more loans, until the financial reform bill has been passed by the state legislature. The small tax- payers refuse to pay taxes. And to complete the picture of financial stability, dozens of banks are closing down, robbing the workers of all their savings. Lastly, regarding crime, the small frys are going under cover, but Mr. Alphonse Capone is sitting safe. He knows very well that ‘Tony does not mean it. In one word, the pre- election social demagogy of Cermak is not work- ing out at all. Conditions are changing from bad to worse. Something is to be done to further fool the workers and to bring some business to Chicago. Words, promises, newspaper cartoons about the coming back of prosperity do not work out any more, The new subway can be built now, say the newspapers, with an outlay of 60 more millions of dollars, but when will it be built? The Federation News of the Chicago A. F. of L. 4s licking Cermak’s boots, better than they did it to the former master, Thompson, but will the workers be fooled any more by the Fitzpatricks, Nockels and the new floor-leader at the City Hall, Alderman Bowler? Something has got to be done—and done fast. The Chicago Jubilee Week. The big mountains of the Tribune and the Association of Commerce got together and gave life to a tiny little mouse. The baby’s name is Chicago Jubilee Week. It is a very small one, but watch it grow! By May 11-18, when ‘the great event is to take place, we will be faced with an elephant, with the earmarks and brayr, , ing of a donkey, The reading of the capitalist press, which plays up this event as a front-page headliner, will make one see what th efamous bootstrap, by which Big Business in Chicago will lift itself out of the mud, will look like. The Jubilee Week will have everything to satisfy the public. Delegations from every state and from the International Chamber of Com- merce will attend. To show its peaceful charac- ter, the week will open with a military p»rade, with Major-General Parker acting as marshal, and this will be further enhanced by the roar- ing of airplanes over the city. International boxing tournaments, displays of merchandise at reduced prices by our business men downtown; fireworks, carnival and the second inauguration of Mayor Cermak. And, according to the press, hundreds vf thousands will stream into the city from other states, availing themselves of the reduced prices of the railroads, to spend mil- lions of dollars, accumulated through unemploy- ment, wage-cuts and bank failures. In one word, a gigantic undertaking, which, according to the ‘Tribune, will “turn the tide against depression, like General Sheridan turned the defeat into victory. Jobs, bread and butter for the work- ing people.” Why Will Chicago Lead? To make it sure that this dope will work, the bosses keep on telling the workers that it is only the beginning. Thé climax of this revival will he veached at the Century of Progress Exposition two years hence. A “Fairyland of Jeweled Light and Color,” this World Fair will present the progress of the world during the past century, Millions of people will come from every country to the city of “I Will,” celebrating its centennial, end they will leave here, incidentally, a pile of money, lots of orders, giving Jabs to the workers iSkin r f 4 for years to come. Doesn't it sound wonderful to the half a million unemployed and their fam- ilies? till June 1, 1933, and everything will be hunky- dory, according to the McCormicks, Strongs, Hearsts and the other owners of the boss press. Dean Heilman of the School of Commerce of the North Western University, in a recent speech gaye thé following key to the exceptional posi- tion of Chicago to ovefeome its difficulties: ‘The opening of Waterways, whieh Chicago will be in the center of, will mean increased trade and prosperity. The improving trade relations with the Canadian Northwest, the good prospects with Latin America, China and the Soviet Union (?) the growth of aviation industry, of which Chicago is bécéming the hub, all spells prosperity. And, last, but not least, the unifi- cation of the city’s transportation agencies (through the hundred million dollars traction steal of Insull). To prove that figures don’t lie, but liars figure, he compares the 50 business houses in 1835 of an annual business of oné mil- lion dollars with the 11,515 manufacturing estab- lishments with the output of five billions today. Isn't all this very convincing? Workers of Chicago Will Fight. The workers of Chicago will not be so easily convinced by’ the editors, professors and labor fakers of the bourgeoisie. They are looking through this smoke-screen of promises and so- cial-demagogy and. see nothing but further wage-cuts, more starvation. While the fascist labor leaders talk about the 6-hour day, they are kept on the job 8 to 11 hours, with their fellow-workers laid off. The two and three days they are working a week, to give a chance to another, explains them the evils of the stagger system. Governor Emerson, Mr. Insull, Jr., and Mr. Hunter of the United Charities may keep on telling that there is no more need for unem- ployment relief, the starvation of hundreds of thousands, breaks through all these lies. The workers want to eat. Nob the civic pride of the Chicago Tribune, not the business revival dope of the Association of Commerce, not the optim- ism of the A. F. of L. leadership, nor the “con- structive proposals” of the social-fascist socialist party—but they want immediate relief for the unemployed, the stopping of wage-cuts and speed-up. The Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League call upon the workers of Chicago to reject all this capitalist poison and to fight. Not for the Jubilee Week or the World Fair in 1933, but for immediate relief for the unem- ployed! For the appropriation of 75 million dol- lars by the city, including the 2 million dollars campaign promise of Mayor Cermak. They must organize themselves to fight the attacks of the big business boosters, the McCortnicks, Swifts & Co. They, too, must participate, how- ever, in the Jubilee Week, especially in the in- auguration of the friend of the people, Tony Cermak, and remind these gentlemen, that there can be no fake jubilee while hundreds of thou- sands ‘are starving. ; QUESTIONS AND All they must do is to keep on waiting | - JUST A REHEARSAL! ae News Item: .War maneuvers over many Eastern and Wid-West Cities wy DUBUR Party Life | Conducted by the Organization Department of | .the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A.| How to Distribute Shop Bulletins Chicago, Til. To many of our comrades the distribution of literature before the shops is a small matter, The making up of the shop-bulletin takes hours | and hours, with the leading comrades of the | section ‘assisting most of the time the shop nucleus, but the distribution end of it solved with the usual “so many comrades from each unit to be before the factory gates at such and such a time; ..” As a result of this mechanical assignment only a few comrades show up at the distribution. They are just giving away the Papers, like the advertising agencies are dis- tributing the leaflets announcing fire-sales. No one to talk to the workers, no one to approach. them for donations, for making contacts. No wonder that after years of “concentration” our nuclei do not grow. The leadership of a Chicago section gave re- cently a good example of proper distribution. They not only mobilized the best comrades of the surrounding street nuclei for the job, but the entire section buro was on the job early in the morning, together with the rest of the comrades before the factory gates. They divided the jobs among themselves, with the leading comrades talking to the workers, asking for their name and address and also donations for the bulletin. The result was a good one. They collected money and secured two good contacts. The mem- bers of the shop-nucleus, seeing the attention of the leadership to the factory have been en- thused to work. The new connections, together with the old ones, have been visited and a May Day Committee was organized. And what’s more important, the leadership of the section knows now more than ever before about the condi- tions. They can now guide the nucleus much better in its work. They also decided that one monthly meeting of the Section Committee be devoted to the discussion of the shop-nuclei in the section. Distributing shop bulletins is not a major matter to some of our comrades. But it is exactly these “petty things” that are so much responsible for our failures. —E. G. More Re-Admissions Into the Communist Party Upon recommendations of New York District Control Commission, Tania Kean, Anna Nem- ser and Clara Meltzer have been readmitted into the Communist Party of the U.S.A. Tania Kean submitted a statement to the effect that during the first six months after her expulsion (in 1929) she had been an active Love- stoneite, participated in the splitting of Harlem Tenants League and of an ILD branch; that afterwards she began to. see the wrong line of the Lovestone group and to recognize her pre- vious stand and activities, pledges herself to help the Party to fight all enemies, including the opportunist and counter-revolutionary Love- stone group, realizes that the Comintern and the Céntral Committee of the Party were and ANSWERS Question—The Anarchist Defense Committee circulates an appeal about the imprisonment of Francesco Ghezzi by the Soviet authorities, demanding his immediate release. What have you to say about this?—I. Z.,.Bronx, N. Y. These anarchists have joined all the Soviet baiters in their denunciation of and attack upon the Soviet Union. Noone is imprisoned in the Soviet Union unless they are caught “with the goods. Ghezzi was connected actively with the black counter-revolutionary organization op- erating in the Soviet Union with the aim of de- stroying the proleatrian government. ‘There is no reason why he should be dealt with differ- ently than Ramzin, Larichev, and the Menshev- iks, when they work for. the overthrow of the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union. However, prisoners in the Soviet Union are treated better than in any other Sountry in the worl ~~ are correct, and asks, through re-admission, to be given a chance to prove her loyalty to the Comintern, to the Party and to the Communist movement in general. Anna Nemser stated that she realized her error in voting for an expelled Lovestoneite in an ILD meeting, but that she had never been connected with the Lovestone group otherwise; that she had continued to work in fraternal | organizations. Supporting the Party line|, and that she recognizes the Lovestoneites as enemies. Clara Maltzer, a needle worker, who had par- ticipated actively in the dress strike in full support of the line of the Party and of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union (was arrested in the course of her activities), stated that she had entirely dissociated herself from the Lovestone group of renegades for oyer a year, and that she considers them now as en- emies of the Party who are trying to demoralize the ranks of the working class. | Shortcomings in Our Work for National Youth Day By GIL GREEN. cessful, must become a day of struggle of the working youth. This was the keynote of the meeting of the YCL District Organizers of the four districts who will participate in the Youngs- town meet. The conference recognized that in all dis- tricts the comrades failed to draw in large s PRE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE, U.S Nees YOUTH DAY, if it is to be suc- | not looked upon as « tions of the young workers, because they raised | only the general slogans put forth by the Na- tional Executive Committee, There was not the slightest attempt to concretize these slogans for the given locality by the raising of certain specific youth issues. Partial Demands F ‘The districts failed to connect National Youth Day with the work of the Plan of Action. ‘They did not connect it with the every day work of the league at the factories, among the unem- ployed, and with the building of the revolution- ary trade unions and youth sections. The com- rades did not realize the tremendous import- ance of raising partial demands at the fac- tories in the name of the unions, in the sport organizations in the name of the Labor Sports Union, etc. They did not understand that this was how to organize a real united front from below of the working youth for struggle and for National Youth Day. This can be best illustrated by the work of the Cleveland District. This district should have concentrated most of its efforts in Youngstown and vicinity. When the National Executive Com- mittee selected Youngstown for the meet, it was with the understanding that this important steel region was to be our centrol point of concen- tration. Just the same as we “storm” one given factory or opponent organization, we must to a much greater extent “storm” Youngstown, and win the youth for our various organizations, especially for the Metal Workers Industrial League and the YCL. This was not done. No comrade was sent as a shock troop into Youngstown. done by the District to help the Metal Workers Industrial League develop partial youth de- | mands at the factories in Youngstown, as a means of building the union and creating a base for National Youth Day. Nothing was done to raise certain specific issues in the various op- ponent organizations in Youngstown. The La- bor Sports Union in its work for the Spartakiad, also failed to raise certain immediate demands for struggle within the opponent sport organ- izations. No Systematic Opponents Work The reports of the districts at the confer- ence, showed the first attempts to carry out the line of the NEC in the “storming” of certain opponent organizations for National Youth Day. However, this was only a meager beginning, and was not condncted systematically. The main shortcoming was again the failure to develop specific yauth issues in these organizations. Our approach was too general. In a few organiza- tions, the districts reported excellent response from the membership for National Youth’ Day. But this was not followed up. When the lead- ership of these organizations began tu fight us, we gave up the struggle for the youth. We did not issue open letters to the membership of these organizations mobilizing them on certain issues against their leadership. We did not at- tempt to get groups of young workers from these organizations to agree to participate in NYD regardless of their leadership. The districts had a formal approach—“Either the entire organ- ization or nothing.” It is clear that such a policy can only mean “nothing.” The conference showed a failure to work en- the Central Control Commission is following the general policy of the Party in reference to those who sincerely recognize their errors, com- pletely dissociate themselves from the renegades, and fully accepting the policies and tactics of the Comintern and of the Party are willing to be active and energetic in carrying them out and in fighting against the renegades. CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION ~ In these ¢ intothe Parts, fj COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE USA. Nothing was | ree 5 ergetically enough for } ay Day. May Day was mobi r and ‘rehearsal for N.Y.D. One was placed as against the other. The districts reported also very little help from the Party for N.Y.D. Very little was done to involve the children in N.Y.D. The districts while reporting great enthusiasm and_ spirit among the mmebers for N.Y.D., had not taken the proper steps to generate this enthusiasm into concrete work. Cleveland and Pittsburgh had not even settled the problem of transporta- tion. T Cleveland comrades also failed to make the necessary technical preparations at | Youngstown for housing and providing for the large number of participants. Nothing was done for publicity especially in: capitalist press. The conference hit all of these shortcomings and decided on a number of concrete motions as | the first steps to change the character of the preparations for National Youth Day. 1. That one comrade from Cleveland and one comrade from Detroit immediately be sent to Youngstown as Shock Troop until N.Y.D. 2. That the Pittsburgh District be responsible for drawing the National Miners Union and the Metal Workers Industrial League into the prep- arations for National Youth Day. 3. That the Detroit District draw the Auto Workers Union into the preparations for NYD. 4. That every district buro at the next meet- ing hold a special discussion on the special is- sues and demands in at least one opponent or- ganization that they are storming. 5. That the Cleveland District at the next buro hold a distussion on the immediate partial youth demands for certain large steel mills in Youngstown. That at this meeting they also take up the special youth issues among the un- employed and also in the various opponent or- ganizations of Youngstown. 6. That every district hold a special confer- ence of adults to draw the various children or- | ganizations into NYD. 7. That every district select a leading com- rade to handle all publicity for press, and that | the comrade in Cleveland be the central com- rade in charge of publicity for Youngstown meet. 8. That -every district place a comrade in charge of arrangements for program. 9. That Cleveland Labor Sports Union be responsible for Spartakiade eliminations and im- mediately work out the events for May 31st, to- gether with Pittsburgh and Detroit. 10. That every League unit in the four dis- tricts be responsible for taking with them to | Youngstown a group of unemployed youth, either from unemployed council, factory line, neighbor- | hood or flop house. 11. That every ‘district include in their NYD committees a number of Party comrades who will be responsible to help draw the Party into the preparations for this day. 12, That NYD rallies be held in all cities either before or at the time of departure of the cars or trucks for Youngstown. This especially to take place in Detroit and Cleveland. ; 13. That another conference of District Or- ganizers be held just prior to National Youth Day, so as to check up on the lest minute ar- Trangemenis and feguard the proper carrying out of all decisions. Uncover Starvation and Misery The capitalist press, the agents of the ruling class, ‘has been publishing less and less news about unemployment. It hides the starvation of the unemployed workers’ families, We must constantly expose the miserable treatment of families of the unemployed by the city governments and charity institutions. We must uncover all cases of starvation, u.- dernourishment, sickness. We must pub- lish these cases in our press, in the Daily Worker, in Labor Unity, tell them at all workers’ meetings. Un- employed Councils should publish bulletins to inform all workers of the starvation and misery of the |” | ‘sll ~e | after us, By JORGE coo We Spread Out Not long ago we noted that the Labor Sports Union has a “Red Sparks Athletic Club,” Second Ave., near St, Marks Place, in this village. Bye and bye somebody will be naming their babies But what we wanted to say was that we have invaded the Soviet Union with Red Sparks, according to a letter from Stalingrad, | some paragraphs of which we give: “Dear Jorge: We Americans at Tractor Plant are sure glad to read in your column of Marek 14 that the campaign for a radio is ended with success. If valuta weren’t so scarce around here and if rubles would do, I am sure the Americans working here would contribute enough to buy you a 25-tube Atwater Kent, if such are made— one which would receive all the good news from. here, “Coming to brass tacks: I want to ask you if you couldn’t help our English paper here, the ‘Industrial Spark,’ with a little of your written contributions. We've been quoting your column right along in our ‘Red Pepper’ column, but lately there are too few themes in your column. Either you must write Red Sparks shorter or write especially for the ‘Industrial Spark.’ “Things are getting along fine here. We are producting A-1 tractors and help in the build- ing of socialism. By the way, I won't give Fish & Co, the satisfaction of investigating ‘forced labor’ here; but I would like to see a delegation of the 10,000,000 unemployed come here and investigate ‘forced labor.’ I am afraid you'd never see them in the States again. “Yours for the Revolution, A. Geller, Ameri- kanskaya Stolovaya, Tractorny Zavod, Stalin- grad, U. S. S. R.” Well, we guess that we'll have to write ‘em shorter; though, strange as it may seem, it takes Jonger write short articles than long ones, And, then, sometimes the subject seems to de- mand lengthy treatment. But, to tell the truth, with all the other work we have, we would like to “develop some new Red Sparks cadres” and go out back of the barn and play hookey a while, * A Good Idea New York is the city of startling contrasty and one chunk of it, the Grammercy Park dis- trict, is an example, One side of it is high-hat, with magnificent apartment houses—facing on the park—and, take notice, the park is locked, is reserved for the brats and poodles of the rich. While just a few steps away are some of the most crowded tenements, streets full of workers’ kids trying to play among the traffic, Which is recalled to us by the comrades who are going to establish a Neighborhood Paper there, along with some kind of a neighborhood meeting place, And that’s a rattling good idea, providing that the Neighborhood Paper really deals with the neighborhood—not forgetting the factories scattered around in it. To launch this ambitious venture, there is a blowout, entertainment and what not, at Man- hattan Lyceum, this Friday night, May 8, given by Unit 1, Section 2, The comrades say. that this is the first real neighborhood paper. ever attempted. We are not sure of that. There have been some mimeographed neighborhood papers, but this, they say, will be a real, sure-enough printed paper. A great deal of good may be done by such work. But only if some real organization re- sults. Think, for instance, what can be done to organize tenants to fight for lower rents. The rent hogs have held rents up outrageously. A solid organization, house by house or by blocks, would soon make some of these bandits back water. And there are the factories, with Shop Com- mittees to form in every one. Organization must be the watchword. The Neighborhood Paper can help that; the paper must not be an end in itself, but only the means. But it’s a good idea, and that’s why we pass it along. 7 8 «6 Sohsg hig Mixed Nuts “Modern Man a Reptile,” says a big headline in a strange sheet some sympathetic person sends us with a letter, urging us to read it. We did, noting the sub-headline “Reptiles Are Con- stipated Animals.” A mean dig. ‘This is all about “Erism,” which begins with a tale of a cat with a broken leg, and ends up with prophecies of buildings 150 to 200 floors high “populated by the youth, which are not afraid to live in the clouds.” All to be brought about, we gather, by a special kind of mating, to resuce man from turning wholly into a reptile species. A very agreeable solution, no doubt, saving the trouble of a revolution. Of course, no ideal relations are possible between the sexes under capitalism. Why, then, not fight capitalism? But “Erism” would divert this basic struggle into a discus- sion—not a fight—with and within capitalism, of sex. All of which reminds us that the paper sent us follows out a consistent line, even if a Junatic one, in saying that “ is usually a degenerate process of the brain.” And it is characterizing itself when it says: “Speech came before thought.” A aes Make No Mistake Don't make a mistake when you read what follows: “Follew the ideas of the man who pays you. “As long as he pays he can eommand men who will do as he says. “Do you need the money or do you want your own way? j “Let the answer shape your eourse. “Don't forget that it is not easy to get a job.” The five sentences above were not written by those terrible Bolshevik “dictators” to the “na- tion of robots.” Oh, no! They were written by: sone newspaper prostitute calling himself J. J. Mundy, and were published in the Chicago Eve: ning American, ‘This is the “freedom” of the “free born Amer- ican worker”—the “freedom” to sneeze when the) boss takes snuff—or go starve to death mi @ job. This is capitalist “democracy,” the | bye “tndividual self-reliance,” This is 4 5 » but wore ta