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late in the after- n n re workers in the n the branch t d aly! of the took more owing crowd rkers, the other An I white workers as- protesting against st evictions, ce and for full k assembled in ‘the that time already hundreds nen with riot and machine ed in the “Black Belt” of ng class neighborhoods, are aroused in anger mst the bloody massacre of ngs y at which Negro work- unemployed workers was nized in advance. “The gro bourgeois paper, in its , On the front page re- nd white landlords, Cc. P., was represented, nd was made on the po- the unemployed ictions This no~ he jeaders of the politicians, to- 's office laid down We call special nong the real estate ting was Kolliner & ana Gross. In the go Whip, there is a re- aployed Councils stop. evictions. clearly indicate that the strug- ctions has become a powerftl izing the masses. Police Com- eviction case & crowd of 5,000 gathered in Ss and prevented the bailiff from @ families! And then he declares, are going to have serious trouble any day “We now perhaps, unless the organized charities can arrange to pi y the rent for the families threat- took place in | ioner Alcock told the newspapers that in | T. Dablished by the Sennen their readiness to | for | | demning, not the police for shooting down the i ened on.” Needless to say, the rents | were not p the charities or the city and | the proc m was continued and the p in conjunction with the repare the blood- ro workers. g the Pegro workers is ong the white. Out of m there is not less than Out of 1,000 eviction orders 50, 00 uner sie, politicians | | | | | hing Co. hone Algonqul y W 71-1956. orker, 50 East 15th Street, Inc, daily except Sunday, st 59 East Cable New York, N. ¥. “DATWORK." Daily, aX orker . E CH IC AGO MASSARCE — bis the court 80 per cent were against Negroes. 8 4 Council movement the cods becomes powerful. Not victions were stopped, but the ed to give relief . In the ter- in mass character. workers—the police,® landlords and eoisie thought they could stop it. lear today that the murder nding of many and the arrest of not prevent the movement from growing but it will consolidate it rather, role of Mayor Cermak, his police, the gro politicians—both republican democ: c, the Jim Crow-A. F. of L. be- comes much more clear to the masses. After the bloody massacre of the unemployed Negro workers and the determination on the t of the workers to continue their struggle, city administration adopted a new method © break the struggle of the unemployed. The oration Counsel, Sexton, called a meet- of the Negro politicians, pastors, etc. Among present were Rev. J. C. Austin, pastor of grim Baptist church; Tom Jenkins, state represent ; Anton McGill, business manager of the Chicago Defender; W. W. Holland and J. B. Apperson, deacons of the Pilgrim church; Robert Ephrein of the Universal Negro Im~ provement Association; Alderman Robert Jack- son; State Senator Albert Roberts, and Rev. y of the Good Shepherd Church. At “conference which was held secretly on the after the bloody mass murders, the state corporation counsel discussed with these Negro misleaders and traitors ways and means of car- rying on the fight against the unemployed workers. These fakers issued a statement con- workers, but the “reds” for giving militant lead- ership to the masses. They also admitted their inability to be effective in fooling the Negro masses, because the Negro masses are losing faith in them and turning for leadership to the Communist Party. Reverend J. C. Austin of the Pilgrim Baptist church, the largest Negro congregation, declares, “I have addressed several of the meetings myself on the subject of ‘Christ and Communist, but you can’t talk religion to St. and the South Side the | By shooting | rkers of the unemployed move- | @ man with an empty stomach’”” State Senator Roberts demanded that all meetings of workers on the South Side be stopped and demanded the arrest of every active worker in the unem- Hloyed movement. White workers must unite with Negro work- ers against all the attempts of the white ruling class to attack the Negro workers and must fight for the full rights of the Negro masses. ‘To carry these tasks to a developed mass move- ment, we must embrace the masses of workers in a broad mass organization such as the branches of the Unemployed Council, League of Struggle for Negro Rights, International Labor Defense and the leagues and unions of the ‘TUUL and the best fighting workers into the ranks of the leader of this struggle—the Com- munist Party. ‘We must clearly understand the role of this attack against the working class as preparations for imperialist war which the capitalists are preparing against the Soviet Union, as one of their means in the attempt to solve the present crisis, In confiection with the trial of the 30 workers arrested, we must raise to the forefront the de- mand that the jury be composed of Negro and white workers, who are not prejudiced against the Negro, and who are not enemies of the Un- employed Councils. The development in Chi- cago among the unemployed workers is clearly indicating that the unemployed workers are tak- ing the right path, that they are not going to starve—that fhey will fight, and only through fighting will they be able to get their demands —of social insurance, immediate relief for the unemployed, stopping of evictions, unity and solidarity of Negro and white workers, mass de- fense of the workers—Negroes especially—from police persecution. Militant Workers Should Join the International Workers Order By MAX BEDACHT. e there have been carried on p of a number of mutual against their worker-members. ties have been inten- ic crisis in America is sified 1 bringing wo abers of these societties to the point of persistently more def- | inite pro-wor! The workers begin | to ask what good ir membership in the mu- tual ben Society is to them-if these societies jp them. Thousands of these mbers are losing their membership be- cause they are unemployed and cannot pay their dues. The reactionary leadership of the organ- izations refuse to use available funds to re- lieve the difficulty of its members. They readily nment bonds of their fascist native ments and thereby earned medals from the fascist rulers of their, native countries as | was‘done by the leaders of the Croatian Benefit Socigty. it they refuse to use any funds of the Organization for the benefit of the workers. On the contrary, when workers dare to. demand policies in their interests then the reactionary leaders institute a campaign of terrorism and expulsion against them. These reactionary leaders have established a dictato in the organizations in order to maintain thelr leading positions. They disfran- thise membership. They deprive them of their right to run for office. ‘They abolish all democratic rights within the organizations. The workers must fight against these reac- tiona policies and the reactionary leadership of their organizations. They must demand and fight for working class policies. At the same time tt must help in strengthening and build- ing the only real workers mutual benefit society, the International Workers Order, Capitalism is ever on the alert for opportun- ities to improve its positfon. It is ever on the look-out for a chance to “turn an honest penny,” ‘ or In plainer words, to make profit. It also util- izes every occasion to improve its position of power ‘The system of capitalism benefits only a small section of « ociety. Therefore obviously it cannot maintain itself without a certain support from the ranks of those whom it exploits and op- presses. The danger for capitalist rule increases in the degree in which the masses of exploited rT 1 ities on the part of the | | and rationalization are the order of the day. and oppressed lose their confidence in the sys- tem of exploitation and oppression. Capitalism tries to maintain such a confidence on the part of the masses of gxploited through its system of education and propaganda. In the schools, in its literature, in the movies, etc., it injects into the minds of the exploited the capitalist way of thinking. At present even tifis capitalist way of thinking on the part of the American workers is np long- er a guarantee against the development of revo- lutionary ideas in the heads of the workers. After all the worker has not only a head; he has also a stomach. The capitalists may succeed in feed- ing the workers’ heads with their poisonous prop- aganda and keep them satisfied; but only as Jong as they are able also to feed their stom- achs. When capitalism shows itself unable to feed their stomachs, the workers hegin to get suspicious about the propaganda and education with which capitalism feeds their heads. In such periods the masses of workers lose their confidence in capitalism because of the suf- fering it inflicts upon them. In such periods the workers learn to understand the teachings of the clasg struggle. The capitalists realize that. That is why they exert every effort to separate any revolutionary thought from the working class. They try to accomplish this by persecut- ing and suppressing the Communists. This per- yplerests of the working class. Among the mili- secution is carried on by the government au- | thorities throughout the country. It is also car- rieé on by the capitalist leadership in all work- ing class organizations. At present American capitalism is faced with such a situation. The economic crisis is deep- ening; the army of unemployed is growing; wage- cuts are multiplying in all industries; speed-up Consequently the economic position of the work- ers is rapidly getting worse. Unemployment stops the workers’ income. Wage cuts reduce the in- come of the employed workers. Speed-up and rationalization throw more workers out of jobs; they also consume ever fasted the workers’ en- ergy, health and lives. As a result of this condition the workers lose their confidence in capitalism. They become more and more ready to listen to the advice that the solution of their problem lies only in organizing and fighting for themselves against the capi- talists. 7 As a result of this sharpening relationship between the working masses and the .capitaliste, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: “AND SHOOT TO KILL!” the capitalists are ever more active in suppress- ing every political thought or movement which leads in the direction of organizing the work- ers to fight for their own interests. This op- pression and suppression gives the dominant color to the political life of present-day capital- ism. ‘We witness not only increased activities on the part of the police against the unemployed, against strikers or against any anti-capitalist activity on the part of the workers. We are also treated to legislation or executive action against the workers, such as the Fingerprinting and Reg- istration Bill recently passed in Michigan or such as the deportation activities of strike-breaker Doak. It also manifests itself in the capitalist leadership of all organizations which comprise primarily workers. There it takes the form of campaigns to drive the Communists out of the ranks of the organizations. It.is this situation which created the special vicious anti-working class activities of the re- actionary leadership in many mutual benefit so- cieties. The mutual benefit societies, no matter what their names may be, have all large numbers of workers in their ranks. After all it is the worker whose economic insecurity under capitalism forces him to organize in. mutual benefit so- cieties in order to secure for himself or for his family the necessary help in case of sickness or death. Capitalism realized this necessity for the worker. By organizing capitalistically di- rected mutual benefit societies it utilizes this necessity to keep'the workers under its thumb. Thus these mutual benefit societies, though or- ganized ostensibly for the purpose of securing benefits for the workers, are in reality instru- ments of capitalism gagainst the workers. A mutual benefit society can become an instru- ment of the workers only if it is organized open- ly and definitely on a program of struggle against capitalism. It is the Jogic of class relation that’ a workers organization, if it wants'to be for the workers must be aaginst the capitalists. The theory of political neutrality for such organiza- tions is onlyacover used by the capitalist lead- ership to hide their anti-proletarian policies. Of all the mutual benefit socities existing, the International Workers Order is the only one de- fending the interests of the working class. It is the only organization which organizes mutual help among its members, for the purpose to support their in their struggle against capitalism. and to help them in their daily, battles for ex- istence. The International Workers Order is the only mutual benefit society which openly proclaims and practices allegiance to the’ inter- ests of the working class. It is the only mutual benefit society which supports militant labor unions and their struggles. In order to strengthen the International Work- ers Order and to make it more effective as a workers mutual benefit society all revolution- ary workers must make the building of the In- ternational Workers Order their concern. Work- ers won for the International .Workes Order are workers won for a conscious defense of the in- tant workers there is too much underestima- tion of the importance and value of a proletarian mutual benefit society. The capitalists do not under-estimate it They see the masses of work- ers organized in these bodies. They see how im- portant it is to use these bodies in order to keep the workers under capitalist rule. Therefore they make these organizations a battleground to main- tain their control over the workers. They see that the mere joining of a mutual benefit so- ciety on the part of a worker is already a po- tential anti-capitalist step. Even though un- conscious it is already a recognition of the prin- ciple that the workers cannot expect help from the capitalist but must organize to help himself. For these reasons the revolutionary workers have the duty to use their membership in the ranks of any mutual benefit society to organize the worker-members to fight for working class policies against the capitalist leadership. It be- comes the duty of all militant workers to support and to build into a gigantic mass organization the only proletarian mutual benefit soclety with militant policies, the INTERNATIONAL WORK- ERS ORDER. } 2TUATA Ox TAROJAVAL By BURCK The International Congress ot the Y.M.C. A. By LIL ANDREWS. AT this moment the world congress of thé YMCA, capitalist agent among the youth, is taking place . What is the significance-of this congress and the organization holding it? Why is it being held at this particular juncture? The YMCA congress follows closely on the heels of the world congresses of the Christian Endeavor, the Rotary Clubs. At the same time the world congress of the Socialists meets in. Vienna. These congresses occur in the midst of economic crisis, But they show that while the capitalists are fighting tooth and aail against each other for control of markets, % is nevertheless found necessary to attempt to unite in the offensive against the working class and an attack on the Soviet Union. The Organization of the Attack on the Soviet Union. After the exposure of war plots and capitalist intervention against the U. S. S. R., the trial of the Industrial (Intervention) Party in the U.S. 5. R. after the wide anti-Soviet campaign carried on by the bourgeoisie masked under the guise of “Soviet Dumping”; the YMCA world congress is but one more step of the capitalists on another front and under the leadership of the U. S. A. to effect a united front of the capitalist class for the attack Upon the Soviet Union. At this congress eight delegates come representing Russia. Do they represent the victorious working class of the Soviet - Union? Certainly not! The YMCA is one of the capi- talist organizations banned fromthe Soviet Union because of its anti-working clas, anti- Soviet character. These delegates come repre- senting the counter-revolutionaries planning in- terver .n against the Soviet Union. © They come u. “ly stating that an immediate task is the »“penc ation” of the Soviet Union through the YMCA, realizing that this means the set- ting up of an illegal intervention organization working hand in glove with all capitalist agents today plotting the attack on the Workers’ Soviet. ‘The YMCA congress is of ’ particular ~impor- tance today, both because of the specific role of the YMCA to the bourgeoisie, and because it is a youth congress, laying significant empha- sis on the “front” of the winning of the youth tothe side of the ruling class. “The fact that this is made an immediate task called for by the present’ crucial situation is shown by the keynote sounded at the very start of the Con- gress: wad business stagnation, financial* depres- and widespread unemployment make today ‘ar greater demand upon the services of an organization like the Association than at any time in history except in the midst’ of the World War.” ‘ This s Doctor John R. Mott speaking, the son of Mr. Mott, owner of the Mott Iron Works, manufacturing bathtubs and plumbing fixtures on a mass scale. Well does this worthy fascist gentleman know the truth of his own words. Millions in profits have been? rifled from the young and adult workers slaving for such Motts. Scores of young workers toil in their factories so that the “Doctor” can come forward with benevolent philanthropy which hides a feverish effort to stop’ young workers fighting es bet- ter conditions. The Struggle for the Youth. Why do the Mr. Motts, Mr. Morgans and other representatives of big business leading the YMCA world congress find it necessary to call attention to the need of an organization like ,the YMCA today? Let them speak for them- selves: “Never before was it so necessary . ..to meet to discuss the welfare of youth, A fuller note of fellowship must be struck aroynd the. ‘globe to give young people leadership ‘through the breakdown of religions and economic tra- ditions.” Precisely! “Never before” were conditions so severe, wages so low, unemployment so wide- spread. And in this situation the young worker, as the cheapest source of Jabor, as the instru- ment for the lowering of the standard of the whole working class, is of -particular impor- tance. A “fuller note” must be struck “around the globe” to win the“youth for the capitalist attack against the Soviet Union. It is for this purpose that millions are spent for militariza- tion of the youth, for Citizen's Military Train- ing Camps, fer developing “war mindedness” among the youth and children. Not only in America, but thé world over, these capitalist controlled “Y"s have tried, with the lure of gyms, bosses’ sports, swimming pools and the idealistic dope of religion, to win the youth for capitalism. With this stock in trade the YMCA alone has been able to increase its membership which in 1917 came to 674,600, to 1,034,019 in 1930. This represents no spectacu- lar gain. The figures of the intervening years shows a grinding increase from year to year, with intermittent declines. The YMCA has had to struggle in order to attain this figure. Within. the membership of the YMCA itself the young workers have shown their discontent. In the West Side “Y” of New York City a move- ment arose against the CMTC and war. Num- berless times members of the YMCA have come out on strike, resisting the efforts of. the boss controlled leadership of the “Y” to stop. them: YMCA Jim-Crows Negroes. The attempt to win the young Negro for co- operation with lynch law and discrimination goes hand in hand with deliberate instilling of Prejudice among the white young workers’ and actual segrezation of Negroes from the white youth within the YMCA. The fact that the YMCA “served” 188 plants with Jim-Crow Negro “Y"s in 1929, while in 1930, 784 plants received the strike-breaking, anti-union “serv- ice” of million dollar “Y"s donated by the capi- talists shows the degree “of importance at- tached to the winning of the young Negro on a Jim-Crow basis ‘2 ordef to break the unity of the Negro and white youth. We might ask the fascist and social-fascist leaders of this bosses’ organization whether the 33,924 young Negroes now in the YMCA can be ‘expected to join in the capitalist cry for the blood of the nine Negro boys of Scottsboro! They know that especially within the Negro membership of the YMCA instances have been felt showing the growing spirit of dissatisfaction and discontent with the Jim-Crow, discrimina- tion, lynch-supporting policies of the YMCA. And that the white young workers in the YMCA will join in this spirit with real working class* solidarity is seen by the spirit of support given to the Scottsboro case wherever Wad members have been approached. YMCA—Strikebreaker. To meet this growing spirit of struggle among the young workers, special shop, mill and fac- tory YMCAs are built. The capitalists owning the factories make large donations for the build- ing of such “Y"s. The very fact that the YMGA served 3,757 shops in 1929, while the figure rose to 4,898 in 1930 points to the emphasis on the industrial young . worker. These YMOAs are excellent weapons in the hands of the capitalists to mould anti-tinion men and strikebreakers. When the dock work- ers of Duluth struck for better conditions, it was the YMCA which provided the strikebreak-. ing scabs for the capitalist concern. During the Colorado coal strike of 1928 the company YMCA housed the scabs and had to set up barbed wire around the building for “protection” from the striking miners. In the New Bedford textile strike, the YWCA, parallel organization to the YMOA, forcibly evicted the girls who “dared” to strike for better conditions in the, mills. In- deed it was not out of the purity of her heart that Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., donated the sum of $1,102,500 to the YWCA in one year. The young workers begin to. see ‘this role of the YMCA. With wage cuts, unemployment, and part time work draining their life ‘blood, the y. mai; everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs t Manhattan and Bronx. New York City. Foreign: one year, $8; six months, $4.50 Porty US.A. - ‘ satisfaction with the boss controlled “Y” and in many places leave the organization. The sup- port of the “Y” members in Danbury, Connecti- cut, to the strikers there is an instance of this. The Attempt to Win the Children for Rocke- feller and Morgan. Hand in hand with the increasing emphasis placed on the winning of the industrial young worker, goes the special emphasis placed on the winning of the-child. It was seen fit to hold @ special assembly at this world congress on the problem of the boy. Topics such as industrial boys’ work, rural boys’ work, work with boys in uniform, received the significant attention of the congress. Were these problems dealt with in order to provide food; clothing and shelter for the mil- lions of children of unemployed workers, thrown out of jobs by the very men who lead this con~ gress? Most assuredly not! These problems re- ceived attention in order to find means of win- ning the children for “patriotic” support of the capitalist system; to find “new methods of work”.to turn the rainers’ children from the support of the miners’ strike. It was obviously not to win better conditions for the 3% mil- lions of child workers and to do away with child labor, that the number of “employed” boys clubs increased from 881 in 1929, to 1,561 in 1930. But flowery phrases about an “adventure with God” cannot fill empty stomachs, illusions about “democracy” cannot find jobs for fathers, or make it possible.for children to have recreation and go to school instead of working in the mills and onthe streets. Indeed, the fact that the children and young workers are demanding bread and will no longer be satisfied with such “high-minded” talk forms @ source for real worry at the World Congress of the Y.M.C.A. These philanthropic gentlemen leading the congress have their hands in their hair when they exclaim: “They .(the young workers) are dissenting with the past as well as with the present, and are very critical... . All over the world there are multiplying and selemnizing signs that some ofthe oldest and most powerful re- ligiens, traditions and social sanctoms are re- laxing their-hold especially on youth.” It is not too much to expect that there will be voices: among the rank and file delegates, right. at’ their World Congress, demanding con- crete measures Gn some of the problems touch- ing. the real life conditions of the youth today. Needless to say, neither Mr. Hoover, who will speak at the Saturday session of the congress, nor Mr, Morgan, a member of the board of trustees, nor-any of the other representatives of big business or their servants, will propose such mesures as relief for unemployed work- ers, relief forthe striking miners. Will the Hoovers, Morgans and others speak about the thousands of young workers who were evicted from the rooms they occupied in the Y. M. C. A. buildings, becatise they were unemployed? It would be folly to expect them to do so. But the young workers, rank and file members who are now starving and on the streets, and who are incidentally not represented at this con- gress, will raisé their voices in revolutionary resentment at the fact, for example, that there are three hundred empty rooms in one of the Y. M.C.A’S of Chicago, while the young work- ers. are on the streets. The demagogy and phrases of the business — of the world, led by the American bourgeoisie, will not be able to blind either the members of the Y. M. C. A., or tke young workérs outside of the “Y” to the real role of this capitalist agent. 1} ¥.C. L. Convention Calls for Organization. At the Sixth National Convention of the Y. C. L...of Amérita the young workers, striking miners, striking textile workers and young Ne- groes coming to the convention from all over the country sounded the call to all youth for organization in the fight for better conditions. At this convention it was clearly pointed out that “the economic crisis and preparations for war kas intensified the struggle for the youth. ‘The boss .class-of the United States is making every effort to weld the youth more closely to its war machine ang to fight the working-class resistance to mass “misery.” The convention placed the problem of winning the young workers and working-class students away from such organizations as the boss-con- trolled Y. M,C. A., and a call was issued to all youth for the fight against mass misery and against war. It is only the Y. C. L., under the leadership-of-the Communist Party, who can and will lead the youth on to the winning of better cond tions and the ending of the system of slavery. ‘To the young workers and working-class stu- dents within the Y. M. C. A., as well as to all the youth, the Y. C. L. states that this World Congress will not provide relief for unemploy- ment, will not- increase wages and better con- ditions, but will rather look for “new methods” to cram more wage-cuts down the throats of the youth and-adult workers, covering it up with all sorts of demagogy. After this’ congress of the bosses’ Y. M. C. A International.‘Youth Day comes, on Sept. 8. This will.be a day of real struggle throughout the-entire-world and it is to the working-class youth all over, -in bosses’ organizations, shops, mills and unemployed, that International Youth Day calls, the 17th International Day of Strug- gle ‘Against ‘Imperialist Wars and Capitalist slavery. Canvas ean and Misery The capitalist press, the agents of the ruling clan has been publishing less and less news about unemployment. It hides the starvation of the meee workers’ families. We must constantly expose the miserable treatment of familiés of the unemployed by the city _ governments and charity institutions. We must uncover all cases of starvation, un~ dernourishment, sickness. We must pub- lish these in our press, in the yee we cte in Labor Unity, tell workers’ meetings, Un- .Workers!. Join the Party of. ~Your Class! P. O. Box 87.Station D. New York City. died sitar more information on the Cums munist Party, - Name =.~, + ABE crssee tot ome, Communist Box 87 Station D, New York City, Party, P,