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

Fudlished by the Comproduily Publishing Co., Inc. fe lath Street, New York City. Address and mai! all c N ecks to tne Daily Worker, daily except Sunday. at 50 Fast . Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable: “MAIWORK.” 50 East 13th Street, New York. N ¥ Dail Central Onge Yorker’ he-CDRw Porty U.S.A. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: My mat] averywhere: One year, $6; six months. $3; two months, $1; eavepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York Ctiy Poreien: one vear. $8+ six months. $4.50. How the Imperialists Incite the Farmers to War ALEX BITTELMAN. the world are working the next war rvention against the Soviet By imperialists Overtime to get especially the military i ‘The over the ers to support e) Union. When we spea we don’t mean n the United States the farmer-capitalist ‘mers rich f This is the eighth article in Comrade Bittelman’s series on the war danger and how to fight it. Read and spread these articles! imperialist war and intervention! Make August 1 a day of mighty demonstration against together to devise means and ways of dealing with the warfare against the Soviet Union and for military in- | These Progressives are also capitalists, they are not representatives of the exploited farmers. They are not starving and hungry themselves, these Progressives. Their speeches “for the farmers” have only this result: it keeps the farmers back from organizing and waging a real fight—a fight against the capitalist system, in alliance with the revolutionary workers. “No Irish Need Apply” You have to be old enough to remember Gro- ver Cleveland at least, if you are not mystified by the title of this Spark. It was used in the By JORGE This group of farr cee eGR Tho ct ’ of wheat. The American official delegate, | tervention is the capitalist fear of the successful so- Agriculture in the United States, as in all capitalist Bee is ip Gey ie bamsoriell a coe the earting population, loiters themselves. They Mr. McKelvie, had only one solution for this question, cialist construction in the Soviet Union. and colonial countries, is in deep crisis. In the Soviet Feelin eae o piled ee me, fore are part of the same capitalist c . whose mis namely, that the “farmers curtail production.” The In November, 1917, the workers and peasants of Union it is growing. Why? Because agriculture in the sednaiscnalp avarice” sae th a a ign pair responsible for the crisis and misery of the masses, and farmers in the United States are familiar with this Russia, led by the Communist Party, had made 4m Soviet Union, as well as industry, is carried on for the papers, song of the bankers and speculators. The exploited end to the rule of the landlords and capitalists. The benefit of the workers and farmers. Especially great tacked on to similar notices at factory gates. lt eorerament visy.prenadag tor (web. eu a farmers have been hearing this thing of “reducing | victorious revolution of the masses established the rule are the achievements of the collectivization of the in- Pred erat of St. Peter and the shin- ee saan acreage” and “curtailing production” ever since 1921, | of the workers and peasants—a Soviet Government. dividual peasant economies. On the 1st of June, 1931, t ‘toate ‘ardinal Hayes, the Irish were then The farmers we speak about are the poor farmers, when Big Business began the post-war drive to “de- This government is now carrying through a Five Year over one-half, 52.7 per cent, of all the individual hold- scale ike an Trish cop of today treats a striker. the exploited farmers; the farmers who are robbed and flate” the farmers as well as the workers. But the Plan of Socialist Construction. It is building success- | ings of the poor and middle peasants had joined the Nad eat seater a hae Pi 0 ruined by the big landown teusts and the banks. farmers could not and did not accept it, because it fully a Socialist system of society, where all the wealth collective farm movement. ; Se ate earns ©. rev om emur san iy kine These are the overwhelming majority of the farming population in the United States. And the bulk of these consists of landless tenants, whose condition in the southern states is practical serfdom, especially that of a still lower income and further ruin and en- slavement to the mortgage banks and speculators. Only Big Business stands to gain from the Hoover program of “curtailing production. of the nation belongs to the toilers, and where produc- tion is carried on for their benefit. There is no crisis in the Soviet Union, neither in- This collectivization of agriculture frees the indi- vidual peasant from the worry and uncertainty of crop failures; it liberates him from the life-destroying drudgry of small peasant economy with primitive tools; has a great collection of this, that and the other in cartoons, and dug up a copy of “Puck” dated March 28, 1883. There in the double page center was a draw- RIESE dustrial nor agricultural. On the contrary, industry ing by J. Keppler, showing the lobby of “Uncle the Negro tenant farmers S the lar rae McKelvie also declared at the London Wheat Con- and agriculture are growing at a most tremendous rate. it raises tremendously the productivity of the soil and Sam’s Hotel,” and the bottom line “aie: “The ey tee ahs . ference that “the United States will not participate in But it is Socialist industry and collectivized agriculture. of labor by utilizing modern machinery, implements, U. 8. Hotel Daily Needs a Bouncer.” That was okrupt farmers. whose heavily mortgaged land is a any international wheat po: Why? Because Bi i b th ers of. th fertilizer, supplied by the government to the collectives; who fi ‘ . Barden; weiner than w help) tovthem, 1icas/- precisely 3 is No capitalist and landlord can rob the toilers of the iF before Doak, who fills the bill perfectly at pres- these poor and exploited farmers that the imperialists are trying to inveigle into war and military intervention In order to deceive the farmers as to the real cause of their miseries, and for the purpose of inciting them to military intervention against the Soviet Union, Big Business and its government—Hoover & Co.—have in- vented the lie of Soviet wheat “dumping.” Hoover and the big capitalists, the people who are responsible for all the ills and suffering of the farming masses, are trying to shift their responsibility and their criminal failure to provide relief for the farmers over to the shoulders of the Soviet Union. It is difficult to find another example of brazen imperialist hypocrisy to match this one. The Soviet Union is exporting grain in quantities much smaller than is exported by Canada or Argen- tina. It certainly exports much less grain than did the Czarist government of Russia. Why? “Because the chief concern of the Soviet Government, which is a government of Workers and Farmers, is to provide for the needs of the masses at home who toil and produce goods. The Soviet Governmen’ is not in the wheat exporting business for the sake of profit, or to und 11 competitors in order te capture their markets. This is the capitalist and imperialist way of doing business. It is Big Business. the banks and grain speculators, that are doing all the dumping, not the Soviet Union. Business in the United States has only three aims in mind: one is to force the American farmers to reduce acreage, the second is to beat its rivals oh the world , and the third—to wage war against the Soviet Vhbat did the delegate of the Soviet Union propose? The Soviet Union offered to join the other wheat ex- porting countries in considering the question of the distribution of the 1931 wheat harvest, but upon a cer- tain condition. W1 was this condition? ‘That the possible methods of solving this im- portant question must not, however, lead to the lowering of the standard of living of the working masses.” (From the interview with Lubimov, head of the Soviet delegation to the Wheat Conference.) In making this offer, the Soviet Union categorically ted the proposal of American Big Business that “the farmers curtail production.” ‘The Soviet delegates maintained that in a world where tens of millions of workers and farmers are slowly dying of starvation the problem is to enable the masses to buy more wheat, instead of curtailing its production. Also, that this can be done not by merely telling them to eat more wheat, as some European capitalist powers are proposing, but by raising the earning and buying power of the toiling masses. This is the meaning of the condition laid down by the Soviet delegates, which was greeted by the ers and farmers all over the world. fruits of their labor. The toilers enjoy it themselves. The well being of the masses is growing daily. They produce to satisfy their needs and to develop further the Socialist system. That is why they are free from the curse of “excessive” food supplies in the capitalist warehouses and at the same time hunger and siarva- tion among the toiling masses. That is why the Soviet Union has no crisis and no unemployment. The bulk of the American farmers have been suf- fering from an agricultural crisis since 1921, since Big Business has begun to “deflate” the farmers. The out- break of the industrial crisis in 1929, following the col- lapse of the criminal speculative orgy in Wall Street, has intensified manifold the chronic agricultural crisis. A general world economic crisis has begun and is still going from bad to worse. What this did to the farmers, as well as to the workers, is difficult to describe. The income of the farmers is falling catastrophically. The American wheat farmers will get this year about 400,- 000,000 dollars for their wheat, whereas last year they got $517,000,000 and the year before $834,000,000. What the farmer Coney, who led the hunger march of Arkansas farmers to the town of England, said about the plight of himself and his neighbors is true of millions of farmers all over the country. He said: “Lots of people are slowly starving, even in good times, on meal and mollasses. That means pellagra. It’s all too prevalent hereabout. They finally go crazy in the it gives the peasant leisure for a social and cultural life; it makes the peasant an active and conscious par- ticipant in the building of a new life, a new social sys- tem, free from oppression and exploitation, free from hunger and starvation, free from crisis and wars. Farmers Must Fight Imperialist War and Military Intervention. ‘The gainers of the war of 1914-1918 were the capi- talists. The “deflation” of agriculture engineered by Big Capital, and the profound agricultural crisis, that followed the war had eaten up manifold the so-called “gains” of the farmers during the war. This “last” war, and the post-war crisis, have ruined the toiling farmers, fastening still more the domination of trusti- fied capital upon agriculture, ; Instead of giving relief, Capital is deflating the farmers still further. To solve the crisis at the expense of the toiling masses, Big Business is. preparing for a new war, spending billions of dollars on armaments and the Navy, for which the farmers and workers must pay. A new slaughter is being prepared especially against the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union, Stimson and Mellon are now abroad trying to unite the capitalist governments for military intervention in the Soviet Union. The toiling farmers have nothing to gain and every- thing to lose by the new imperialist war. The toiling farmers of the United States, the same as the indus- ent. A big husky, with a belt labelled “bouncer” and a cap labelled “Arthur,” meaning President Arthur, we imagine, is flinging Irish out of the door with both hands, while Parnell at the door- way, hesitates before entering. Another Mick with a German companion, shrinks in fear. You see, in those days Germans were “danger- ous foreigners,” because the ones who immi- grated to America were “outlaw” revolutionists fleeing from Bismarck’s oppressive laws and bearing the Communism of Karl Marx’s historic “First International,” the International Work- ingmen’s Association. Getting back to the cartoon: On the wall of the “U. S. Hotel” is a list of “Rules and Regula- tions,” reading as follows: “Guests are Required to Preserve Order.” “No Bomb-Throwing.” “No Incendiary Talk.” “No Communism.” “No Fenianism.” We have not the slightest idea that it will do any good, but you soap-boxers might kid the Irish cop that “guards” your meeting by re- minding your audience of these old days when Irish were looked upon as devilish undesirable citizens and Communism was said to be import- ed from Germany. : The Soviet Union exports to exchange goods for What happened then was this: none of the capi- last stages.” \ trial and agricultural wage workers, are particularly = = * goods. Wherever it sells it also buys. It sells grain talist delegates, who represent the interests of Big Who is responsible for this? The capitalist system | menaced by the imminent military intervention against *. » and buys machinery. In the United States, it buys Business and big landlords, accepted the proposals of and Big Business, But they don't admit their respon- | the Soviet Union, which is the hope of the exploited So, Finn Farmers Are Sore more than it sells. This supplies work for American workers, 13 million of whom are totally unemployed to- day due to the capitalist crisis. Large numbers of work- ers are thus enabled to buy more of the products of the Soviet Union. The Conference achieved nothing. The capitalist and landlord delegates went home to continue cut-throat competition among themselves, making the toiling masses at home pay for the tariffs sibility. Moreover, they are making the farmers and the workers pay for the crisis. The fall in the price of wheat is made good not from the profits of the railroads, banks and speculators but from the income all over the world, which is laying the basis for a new world of freedom and equality, which is the greatest factor making for peace and fraternity among nations. The toiling farmers must join hands with the revo- ‘We have heard so much about the sorrows of the Russian “kulak” that it is a relief to learn that just over the border, in capitalist Finland, that farmers are having their farms taken away American agriculture than they would without the and competition, and to intensify their warfare against of the exploited farmers, and the wages of the agricul- lutionary workers in the fight against imperialist war pep them, ne by robes aie aan but quite Soviet: orders for machinery the Soviet Union tural and industrial workers. and military intorventiem in the Soviet Union. They ar ipownaiesied 8 eae eli ee Is this “dumping”? Of course not. The Federal This conference has clearly shown up American Big Relief to the starving farmers? Relief to the un- must join the common fight against hunger, starva- 2 WO Ee rey . Y. ‘Times Farm Board and Hoover have invented the lie of Soviet “dumping” in order to c up their own bankruptcy and crimes against the exploited farmers. This Hoover lie was completély exploded at the International Wheat Conference in London which came | Business as thé greatest and most malicious dumper and exploiter. Agriculture in the United States ang in the Soviet Union. Oné of thé biggest reasons why Ameritan Big Busi- ness has become the chief instigator of the economic employed workers? Hoover and the capitglists are against it. Let them starve, this is the message of the capitalists to the toiling masses. The nice speeches of the .8o-called Progressives in Congress—Norris, LaFol- lette, etc.—mean exactly nothing and produce nothing. tion and capitalist terror under the leadership of the Communist Party. Against imperialist war. Against military inter- vention in the Soviet Union. For a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government in the United States. June 16, which printed a dispatch from thet marvelous center of veracity, Helsingfors, which said that ‘‘excited farmers prevented the legally authorized sale of a farm’—no doubt by fore- closure. Caseig, ~~ a The capitalist government of Finland, which gets dreadfully worked up at the plight of the “kulaks” in the Soviet Union, is said to have “published a proclamation to the police authori-~ ties which requested them to use all available forces to prevent citizens from interfering with legal functions.” It is added that thousands of farms (and there aren't a great lot in Finland) are threat- ened with “forced sale for debt.” It is up to the American farmers who are chained to the banks to take a leaf out of the Finnish farmers’ book and refuse to pay, all to- gether, and “prevent legally authorized sales”— i they can do it just as easily as the Finnish farmers did. What’s All the “Left” About? Picked up the paper last Thursday (‘he World-Telegram of N. Y.) and bless me if there wasn’t a headline reading: “Labor group starts riot in Commons,” and the first paragraph of the story read: “LONDON, July 2—The House of Commons was the scene of unparalleled disorder today when the left wing Laborites resisted the sus- pension of one of their number.” “Well,” thought Red Sparks to himself, “have we been all wrong in saying that the ‘left’ labor- ites (or “socialists”) are only a sort of come-on guys to get workers into control of the ‘right’ ' by pretending to be ‘left’? Here is a story that , seems to indicate that they were making a real scrap against that old counter-revolutiony Ram- say MacDonald. What's it all about?” i So we read down through the story, a story } telling of how the “left” laborites had “clawed, kicked and tackled attendants” who tried to ¢ remove J. McGovern of Glasgow from the sac- red House of Comimons after he had been sus- pended on the motion of MacDonald. But what was the cause? Had McGovern demanded immediate freedom for India and a release of the Meerut prisoners? Had he pro- tested at the wage cuts being put over on the British textile, railway and mine workers! Maybe he had demanded that the “Labor Gov- ernment stop plotting war on the Soviets? Alas! Nothing of the kind! This “left” Jaborite was interested in none of these basic j things. All his “revolutionary” fervor was spent on a demand to know why—as the United Press dispatch put it—“why Scottish preachers had been imprisoned for preaching on the green (park).” PSS a Sa ee eae the steel workers especially, we have been too The Role of the Party in the Strike Against Starvation By CARL PRICE | ig necessity of building the Party in the present strike of the miners in District Five ‘against starvation, is now an important and | burning question. The strike means the draw- ing in of hundreds of new fighting elements “into the Party, many of them young American elements, Negro and women workers. It means | (,. the’setting up of many new units, and the re- organization of the old units. ‘The strike cannot be considered a victory (.. sfor the workers, unless a mass Party is estab- lished. Shortly before the strike, the Party in Wes- tern Pennsylvania, had at most 75 members in the mining fields, and not more than 25 mem- bers in East Ohio and West Virginia. Many of these Party members belonged to units which were not meeting regularly and not functioning _ properly. ~ Before the strike. a number of important pre- paratory steps were taken which undoubtedly had an effect on the rapid spread of the strike ‘The Hunger March. which took place on April 18th, with nearly 100 delegates from the mine |PARTY LIFE aN observed among the Party members. For ex- ample, at a Party fraction meeting of miners | in’ East Ohio early in May, Party members put forward among others, the following arguments: 1. The fact that we need a new line and a | program for the NMU, is proven by the fact | PRE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE, U. S. A. ‘ ; that the NMU is not yet a mass union. 2. That it is impossible to get Negro workers into the union. 3. That since the present membership has failed to build a mass union, we should com- pletely eliminate all present members and start building everything from the beginning. 4. That we are too weak to lead strikes at the present time in East Ohio. Another form of the failure to properly esti- mate the situation is seen in the argument put forward that whate the Party needs now is day to day detailed organization work, and not “showy demonstrations.” { This argument was used by a leading comrade, who argued against holding a Hunger March on these grounds, but who, however, quickly saw and corrected his mistake. fields, greatly stimulated the beginnings of struggle of the miners against starvation con- | ditions. It resulted in greatly increased agi- | | To Mass Work Among the Yo ung Workers By I. AMTER 'HE Sixth Convention of the Young Commun- ist League faces tremendous problems. The world crisis, which has meant misery and starv- ation for millions of workers, including a large percentage of young workers, and the growing danger of war on the -Soviet Union, make this convention one of the most important that the YCL has held. The masses of young workers are not yet within the sphere of influence 0: the YCL. Capitalism is continually on guard <zainst the encroachment of the YCL on its “preserves’— the young workers and the children of the work- ing class, Hamilton Fish and his despicable committee, operating in the interests of the cap- italist class, know that the young workers and the working class children are potent factors for the revolutionary movement. They know that, in view of the war plans of the U. S. imperialist government, which are being put into effect very rapidly, the young workers will be the first needed to put them through—as cannon fodder. The activities of the imperialists among the young workers, through the YMCA, YMHA, the CMTCs, the boy and girl scouts and similar organizations, reveal the feverish haste with which the imperialists are working. These young workers, who are starving in the streets, owing to unemployment; who are hav- ing their wages cut, however low they may have been, are fighters. They must be lined up with the revolutionary movement. They must be reached by ihe Young Communist League. As voted a long meeting to this strike preparation. ‘The minutes of May 7th in view of later devel- opments are an interesting record. “The com- rades from Avella proposed that we have the perspective of calling a strike within eight to ten days. It was decided that the strike be immediately prepared in Avella, that the Dis- trict office shall send comrades to Avella units to guide them in tne work. New forces must be brought in and local leadership built up. Special attention must be paid to linking up the fight against wage-cuts, with the struggle ) yet this task has not been fulfilled—and hardly | begun, ier The convention will turn the membership of the Young Communist League to the basic tasks of the YCL: the organization of the millions of unemployed young workers; the organization of the young’ workers in the shops and mines for struggle against the wage slashes, lengthening of hours and speed-up, which are taking place now, and will face the young workers and the entire working class in the coming months. It will deal with the vital problem of lining up the young Negro with the young white workers, to form solid ranks for the fight against jim- crowism, lynching, etc. The young miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia demonstrate that the young work- ers will fight—and fight like hell. What they need is organization—organization into the re- volutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League, organization into the Young Commun- ist League. This convention of the Young Communist League faces basic problems that must be solved. Face to the factories—each individual member of the League an organizer of the Young Com- munist League in the shop in which he or she works—mass sale and distribution of the Young Worker—building up of the Labor Sports Un- ion—preparation, organization and mobilization for struggle against the coming attack on the Soviet Union. These are the vital tasks—and the Sixth Convention will set the League on the path of performing and realizing them. particularly in the steel industry and railroad industry. The strike in Western Pennsylvania un- doubtedly has had a tremendous effect upon the working class in all basic industries. The fact that one of the immediate results of the strike was the building of an Unemployed Council in Pittsburgh and renewed activity of the unem- ployed which held successful demonstrations, preventing the shipping of scabs from Pitts- burgh to the mine field, shows the effect of the strike on the unemployed workers of Pittsburgh. tation in the section now on strike, and espe- cially served to link up the struggle of the em- ployed and unemployed miners. In some sec- tions, such as New Kensington and Avella, it resulted in the organization of Unemployed Councils of the NMU. The strikes in the Tom-- ajko and Edna mines in Westmoreland County, led by the NMU also advanced the struggle of | the miners. These strikes, together with the strikes in Central Pennsylvania, and in the Sauerkraut mine, proved to the miners that suc- cessful resistance could be put up against wage cuts and rotten conditions, in spite of the fact that the National Miners Union did not at that This artificial separation of “mass work” from time have a mass union in the bituminous fields. | “detailed organiaztional work” (visiting of house All of these preparatory struggles served to get | to house contacts etc.), was manifested on a rid of some of the pessimism which hung over | number of different occasions in the District. A from the defeats suffered by the miners in 1929. leading members of the YCL displayed a ten- Until shortly before the strike, , although the dency towards this separation, and towards the NMU had the political leadership of masses of | separation of the work of building the YCL,’ miners, it was organizationally very weak. too much, from the TUUL youth work. The The pessimism which had existed, was to be Daily Worker Agent of the District stated that | his work was not mass work, and went further, and argued against being placed on the agit- prop department, on the ground that he would rather do “mass work,” and also stated that the visiting of units by District Representatives, is not mass work. These comrades did not fully realize that detail organization work cannot be mechanically separated from “mass work” and is an important part of mass work. | It is quite obvious now, at least in District Five, that in the present period, if the Party wants to lead masses, and build a mass Party, it must do so on the basis of leading struggles and strikes of the workers against wage cuts and starvation and for the needs and demands. The basic cause of these wrong tendencies, was the underestimation of the tremendous militant fighting resistance against starvation, which was developing in the workers. The District Bureau knew that conditions of literal starvation to an unheard of extent ex- isted in the mining field, but underestimated the speed of the development of the struggle against these starvation conditions. This is Conducted by the Organization Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A. |) 3 DON'T PAY RENT-STEIKE/ _ DEMAND-A REDUCTION IN RENT. / | DEMAND:-REPAIRS -T0-YGUB-AMMETMENTS! % FELLOW TENANTS OF Z, &th. Et! The leaflet reproduced herewith is one of a series of such leaflets issued by workers who have orga- nized to fight against high rents. St. nuclei in all dis- tricts and sections of the Party can develop similar TO-DAY 18 RENT DAY AND THE LANDLORD WIL! ¥ TO COLLECT THE MONZY FROM UB WHICH He DHE tS eat We PAY HIM ON THE FIRST DAY OF EVERY MONTH, Att have paid him the rent some of us will not have a cent left to live on or to buy food with. FELLOW TEYANTS 3 The tenenta of #334 3. Bthe Ste, have united together and told Ure. Blooh, the owner ilizing re. rt of the Rouse that they will poy no rent until she hes movements around de- | shown by the fact that the two months plan of | #8@inst unemployment. ‘The Unemployed Coun- | ‘These unemployed workers, recognizing that | SOW in mob ior Shree Manafiald, ’ mde sopnize ong gusrted thes G11 8 retuotion in rent. mands for meeded repairs | work of the Party, did not emphasize the im- | oll of Avella Sec.:cn must ‘be drawn into the |. tne workers themselves in thelr own,organiza- ae tewaee i dete errors pia pit rent to-day m and reduced rents, The mediate development of strike struggles. ‘The | Strike preparations and the demands shall also | tion, the TUUL, are fighting a bitter struggle papa auiickignts struggle against wage cuts. ¥ ei Bose s. Spusch previa Gib. atiot ion ea seas response ‘and militancy of Party leadership realized that strikes were in- | Coordinate the struggle of beret and a against starvation, expressed their solidarity with ‘The building of the Party must go forward | Then sho sces that we moan business, she will do more the workers in the fight | creasing and foresaw that the NMU must be | omPloyed’.......The Secretariat then assigned | the miners in no uncertain terms. ‘The effect | on faster in this period of strike struggle. ! than "think it over" ~ gho will roduce the ront ond against high living costs | built into a mass union in the heat of such | Sdded forces to work in this Section. Tt was | of the strike on the steel workers and railroad | Ti. tne next few weeks, large numbers of | make reprire « manifested in recent and strike struggle. But the Party Fraction of the | ©™mphasized that the strike shall not be called | workers must not’be underestimated. We must miners, steel workers and unemployed, must be Tho fight will be stronger ond our victory cortain 1f present, rent, bread, meat | miners’ union for example, which met on April | !"om Pittsburgh, and that the largest number | yealize that the conditions of the steel workers aeawa iris the Party. Fraction conferences in het. Mo will show the landlords of all and other such strikes, | 26th, was not yet mobilized for immediate strike | Of Miners shall be drawn into the work of draw- | are nearly as bad as those of the miners, that | /0™, ning field to take up mass recrtulting of Wo can a sete nee Tee ees ee Cycom Light 1 | proves that this isa fertile | struggle. The mistake was in foresceing a per- | 198 UP the demands, and into the preparations | unemployment, wage cuts, part time work, and miners into the Party has already begun, The it over". To can force them to reduce our rent and field for development of iod of small individual strikes and in not re- | for the strike. speed up, has been stirring up in the steel work- | 100°C recruitment into the Party is now under ta in the aportmente. mass struggles. alizing that a broad mass strike movement had | syowever, the fact that the speed of develp- | &S & mood for struggle. way. The new members taken in, will be or- | ripened. On May 7th, two leading Party members from Avella came to the Party office and insisted that plans for developing strike struggles in the NO RENT OM RENT DAY = UNTIL OUR RENT Ig REDUCED? NO RENT ON RENT DAY = YNTIL THE APARTMENTS ARE JOIN THE TENANTS LEAGUE / Monday at 2 P, Me E. 7th. Bt. ment of the struggle was underestimated, was shown by the following sentence in the min- utes “Special attention must be given to calling out all mines of the section, and spreading the Avella Section must be speeded up. The min- | strike, so that it will not consist of merely a utes of the Secretariat of May 7th states: | strike in.the P. & W. and the Duquesne Mines.” ‘The slogan of the solidarity of the steel work- ers and coal miners must now be put forward seriously, The strike of the miners spread to East Ohio because the miners realize that a general mine strike is the best method of strug- gle against starvation. The effect of the West- ern Pennsylvania strike is clearly seen in East Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Southern Illinois. The strike of the miners has un- | doubtedly effected the steel workers, Among ganized into new units, or placed into existing units, and explained the role of the Party and its tasks taken up in these units. - The recruitment into the Party among the steel workers and unemployed in Pittsburgh, { must accompany the recruiting drive in the mine field. Now is the time in the period of struggle, to go forward to the building of a mass Party in the Pittsburgh district, “Comrades........ called the attention of | Our underestimation of the power and scope the Secretariat to the necessity of decisive ac- | of the mass movement which was developing tion and a demand on the part of the miners | against starvation conditions should serve as @ for strike." The Secretariat at this time de- | lesson to the Party in the other demonstrations Moota eve pated Teesed by thd Tenante League ¢ 2 he he