The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1931, Page 4

Published by the Comprodaily Rublishing_ Co 3th St. New York < Address and mail all Page Four Ine daily except ‘Sunday ity,.N. ¥. ‘Lelevhon checks to the Dally W AL j Cable 50 East 13th Sti reet, New F n the Carrying Out of the 13th Plenum Decisions | HOW TO USE THE PARTY APPARATUS AND THE POLIT- | ICAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE PARTY TO BUILD THE ORGANIZ By TOM JOHNSON mm Work Among the Unemployed. To use this ®ass campaign for the penetration of the shops we must do the following: a) (Instruct our agitators to at all times raise the fundamental issue of unity of unemployed and employed in | the struggle. This must not be done mechanic- ally—we must be very concrete in it. Thus in Chicago on the South Side we must raise con- stantly among the unemployed the necessity of unity with the workers still employed in the stockyards in their struggle against a recent | wage cut. We must raise there the question of practical help to the stockyard workers in the organization of this struggle. We must register the stockyard unemployed in our movement and form them into shock troops for the building of grievance committees among those still at { work, | b) We must call to our meetings of the un- employed, part time workers in the factories we are concentrating on. We must formulate special demands for these part time workers and we | must mobilize the unemployed to fight with them | for these demands, The part time workers con- stitute our most valuable link between“the un- employed and the employed and this link must be seized on and used. ci) When mass lay- | offs take place we must be on the job organ- | izing the laid off workers right at the shop | gates the day they are laid off, for struggle against mass dismissals. We must bring to such shop gate meetings masses of the unemployed and hold a solidarity demonstration there. In | this way we will get valuable contact with work- | ers direct from the shop and with workers-still in the shop. d) We must draw much more than heretofore the employed workers into the them to send delegates to our conference. Thru these delegates we will be able to build opposition groups within the A. F. of L. and to improve our contact with workers in these unions still employed. 7 Election Campaign. To we this campaign to build shop organization we must; @) Instruct the comrades collecting signatures to find out if possible where each worker who signs works. ‘This will not be hard to do. We must then copy off the petitions the names and addresses of workers in big factories and visit them for the purpose of drawing them into the grievance | shops. This means much more emphasis on | in the campaign to the shop workers. SHOP | ATION | committee or union in their shop. By all means | possible we must use the opportunities for talks | with workers afforded by the collection of sign- | | atures for the drawing of workers from the big | | factories into our movement, | b) We must bring our campaign into the big | | “Not a single class in history | achieved power without putting for- | ward its political leaders and spokes- }Mmen, capable of organizing the move- | | ment and leading it.” (Lenin.) | shop gate election campaign meetings. Here we will get valuable contacts if we organize the meeting properly and have our comrades cir- culating among the crowd talking to the workers and getting names and, addresses where pos- | sible. We must adapt our agitational material We must, as indicated above, link up conditions in the shop with the political issues of the campaign | in the closest manner.. Through the campaign | the workers in decisive factories must learn that | our Party is not merely an electioneering organ- ization, that it is the best leader of the workers in the shops and of the unemployed in their struggles for their most pressing needs. We | must see to it that our leaflets, etc., are distrib- | uted inside the shop, etc. | c) We must use the campaign to penetrate the factories organizationally. Where we have | connections already we may be able to set up some form of loose Red Election Campaign Com- mittee in the shop itself, which can be used as the basis of a grievance committee following the | campaign. Where we set up Vote Communist Clubs in the neighborhoods we must find out | which members are workers from big factories and use these contacts to build our organizations within the shops. Bart These two examples indicate some of the ways in which we can use our political campaigns to penetrate the factories. It is necessary to issue the warning that all this will remain on paper unless our comrades constantly keep in mind that the decisive task before’our Party today is | the building of grievance committees, the revo- lutionary unions and the Party in the big shops. Our whole Party apparatus, our whole member- ship, every one of our mass political campaigns, must be swung into swift well planned action to achieve this end. « ORGANIZATIONAL RESULTS AND UNIT LIFE By HELEN MAROY K the heart of Harlem, where 400,000 Negroes live within a concentrated area, only one Ne- gro was present at the unit meeting which I at- tended. Proof that we have not secured or- ganizational results among the Negro masses, this despite the fact that in the past year or so there has been agitation on the Levy and Gonzalez murders, the Yokinen trial, the Scotts- boro and Camp Hill cases, the organization of ‘Tenants Leagues and Unemployed Councils num- erous open air and mass meetings, etc. After the murders of Levy and Gonzalez, 600 Negro workers joined the Party, and of these only 10 per cent remained in the Party. The | conduct of the unit meetings contributed its share toward the fluctuation. | The meeting started half an hour late—8:30 | pm. Some comrades came in an hour late. | The unit buro had not met the week before, so unnecessary details took up the time of the unit. The organizer had not read thoroughty the section committee weekly letter and his in- troduction of various tasks was confusing and uninteresting since on many points he had to acquaint himself right at the unit. He also had a very bad habit of repeating entire speeches of other comrades and of chewing his own words over and over again. The attention of the comrades was not good, primarily because of this. His points were not clear and de- | eisive. | Although 60 per cent of the comrades were ,| im great need of training in the Workers School | none volunteered to attend the Fall classes. If | the need for these had been properly stressed | and explained by the organizer, some comrades {| would surely accept to attend the school. Not one comrade volunteered to attend the special class on the Negro question! How ts it possible for comrades whose work primarily consists in agitating among the Negro workers. What Is Communist Discipline Based On? | ‘The question arises first of all, how is the | discipline of the revolutionary Party of the proletariat maintained? How is it being tested? How is it being strengthened? Firstly, by. the consciousness of the proletarian vanguard and its devotion to the revolution, its steadfastness, its self-sacrifice and its.heroism. Secondly, by its ability to maintain contact and to obtain approach, to fuse itself, if you like, with the wide masses of toilers—firstly and foremost with the proletarian toiling masses, but also with the non-proletarian toiling masses, Third- ly, by the correct political leadership exercised by the vanguard and its correct political strategy and tactics, which are conducted in ‘such a way that the wide masses are able to convince themselves of their correctness- by their own experience. Without these condi- tions, discipline cannot be maintained , in ‘# revolutionary Party really capable of being the} Party of the class which is destined to over- throw the bourgeoisie and transform the whole ‘of society. Without these conditions discipline ‘must inevitably be an empty-sounding phrase, \@ crooked gesture, But such conditions cannot ‘be created immediately. They are the result ‘of long effort and painful experience; their \creation is facilitated by a correct revolution- ‘ory theory, a theory which is not a dogma, but ‘which has been built up by close as:ociation with the experience of a real mass, revolution- ary movement, | @rom Lenin’s “Infantile Sickness of Leftism, (written im 2920.) % | i | There would have developed a good discussion, | as well as the problems of the workers in the About 10:15 a comrade reported on the sec- tion convention resolution and Proposed it for adoption. He read directly from the resolu- tion without clarifying or concretizing the re- solutions. Again the attention of the comrades was a “dutiful” one. Only two functionaries of the unit took part in the discussion. It was 11:30 when we ad- journed and some comrades had to travel to different sections of the city. The children of the comrades in whose house we met were waiting for us to go, so they could get to bed, Other comrades looked physically sick from having spent three and a half hours in a stuffy room on a hot night after working all day. if the resolution had been presented .earlier in the evening. Allowances are to be made for the unit, recently reorganized, mostly non-residents, language dif- ficulties, etc. But the question remains, “Will we keep masses of workers in our Party with this‘type of unit meetings? Of course, not.” Our units must reflect in a vital and healthy manner the campaigns that the Party is con- ducting, the growing militancy among the work- ers, and our increasing influence among them, shops and neighborhood. The Wage Cut in Sheffield Steel 'ARRYING out the no wage cut program of Hoover, Green and Woll, the Sheffield Steel of Kansas City, Missouri, announced a wage cut of 10 per cent, to. take effect immediately. Not being satisfied with the mass lay-offs of the past year, which have created a terrific speed-up in the plant, they have instituted the stagger system, where workers are not getting more than three days’ work per week, and, in some instances, one and two days. ‘The workers in Sheffield are already starting to see through the misleadership, of the A. F. of L., as one or two of the departments that employed highly skilled labor are organized un- der the leadership of the misleaders and today are working under a wage-cutting agreement that was signed up last July, with about 5 per cent of the membership present to take up the agreement. * The misleaders forced these workers to ac- cept this agreement, by telling them that unless they dia the bosses would shut down completely, rather than give in to the union, or that if they struck against the miserable existing conditions they would be beaten, since there were so many unemployed, but the role of the union in this case (as in many others) is clear. If the men raise a protest against this wage cut they will flaunt the yellow agreement in their faces. and say we did not force you to sign it, you signed it without any pressure by us. They will not mention the fact. that the wage-cutting agree- ment was forced through. ‘The workers in Sheffield must start organ- izing against this wage cut immediately, every department in the plant must be organized, from the nut and bolt to the fabricating mills. ‘We must not forget the unemployed, we must organize them into unemployed councils and » at80 Bast & , SUBSCRIPTION RATES: “DAIWORK. reel U.. J Or er By matl everywhert: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs Pork, Neve Z of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: one year, $8; six month, $4.50. Central raft ine wrist Party U.S.A. a0 a = war == Sa, Teen SS Oe ie ae bia ‘A Bloody Week in Cleveland r the long: list of martyrs throughout the country in the past year (New York-Chicago- Camp Hill) is now added Cleveland, Two un- employed Negro workers, John Grayford and Edward Jackson, were killed by the police. Both were active and militant workers in the Un- employed Council, one of them a member of the Communist Party. Last Monday the City Council decided to put. through an increase in carfare to ten cents. This at a time when thousands of workers are unemployed and those working partially have their wages cut to the bone. The City Council found that its schemes were exposed. Two thou- sand workers marched to City Hall to protest against this action. In the council meeting, when the workers demanded the right to be heard, Mayor Marshall answered by calling the police. Attacked by these thugs the workers defended themselves heroically and for half an hour the council could not meet. Finally, leay- ing the City Hall, they marched in a heavy rain to the headquarters of the Communist Party and held a meeting there. To show their support to the Party 150 filled out application cards, The following day an eviction was taking place at 2693 E. 47th St. This is the center of Un- employed Council No. 8, which prides itself on its considerable activity. Afraid to evict the family during the day the landlord and police decided to do it that night. But they found their plans frustrated by Council No. 8. Over 300 workers were there to fight against this’ eviction. For this they were murderously at- tacked by the police. Unable to stop the work- ers from putting back the furniture, the police shot point blank into the crowd. As a result two workers were killed and four known wounded, besides some that got away without treatment. ‘Terror reigned in the neighborhood for over an hour. Police squads from all over the ‘city were sent in. But, to the surprise of the police, the crowd was undaunted. Everyone remained in the neighborhood and a protest meeting was held immediately. Speakers were cheered and all Pledged to intensify the fight against evictions and starvation and for equal rights for the Negro people. This. was followed by a number of arrests in order to stifle the militancy. A large number are arrested and held in- communicado. The wounded are in jail without treatment. Henry White, a Negro worker, suf- from bullet wounds in the right thumb and left thigh, but, like all the other wounded, does not receive hospital treatment. Tie high spirits among the workers here is seen by the events that took place on the day following the shootings. At a meeting of the Unemployed Council, attended by 500, they unanimously decided to go back to the same place and put back the furniture. _ However, the charities had already felt forced to take action in the morning. The number increasing when they reached the house, a march was begun back to their headquarters. Such activity can not be killed by policemen’s bullets. ‘The Party here is answering this murderous attack by mobilizing all workers in a united front to resist it. Preparations are going for- ward for the funeral, where the Cleveland work- ers will answer the mayor, manager and city council, who are responsible for this murder. ‘The city authorities are already refusing to give up the bodies of their victims and in this way to cover their crime. Fight against evictions and hunger! ™ Fight against the’ murderous attacks on the Negro masses! = Build the Unemployed*Councils and ali revo- lutionary organizations! help them in their,fight for unemployment in- surance, both from the state and federal gov- ernments, since we know from past experience in the textile strikes in the East, the coal strike, that the unemployed were not guilty of break- ing the strike of their fellow-workers, but rather went out on the picket,line with them. Khe Trade Snlom Unity League ta endy to | Vote Communist on Nov. 3. Join the Communist Party! assist the workers in the organizational work, and is opening a headquarters at 713 Indepen- dence Ave. Right in the Sheffield district we will have « supply of literature on hand at all , times, The headquarters will be open from 9 in. tae memning to-R wt-nighh eee, | “Disarming” tor War By M. L. HE coming Disarmament Conferénce at Ge- neva in 1932 is in the minds of many states- men. Hoover plans to “economize” on the naval building program; Borah urges a five-year naval holiday; the Assembly of the League of Na- tions urges @ one-year’s holiday on all arms. All this is camouflagé. It is intended to hide the preparations of the imperialists for war. This_is the same peace talk, always before an approaching disarmament conference, with which the ruling class attempts to lull the masses to sleep. The capitalist countries are preparing for war, so in order to hide this, they try to appear as peace angels before the eyes of the workers, » A few citations from the press will show that the capitalist nations are getting ready not for any peace confab but for war. Concerning the proposed visit of Laval to see Hoover, the N. Y,. Times of September 20 car- | ried the following word from Washington: “The attitude of France towards this con- ference (Geneva) has been construed as far from cordial, and no doubt is felt here that President Hoover would be glad of an op+ portunity of discussing the armament situa- tion with Premier Laval, with a view to con- ¢ vincing him that, as far as the United States is concerned, there is no desire to put France in a position where her security might be en- dangered.” ‘ In the Baltimore Sun of August 7 there ap- peared a dispatch from Washington which stated that “the chief thing the State Department is interested in...is Russia’s stand on disarma- ment...the State Department has taken note of the repeated statements of France that. there can be no disarmament as long as the Russian Army remains as a threat to the French allies— Poland, Rumania and Czecho-Slovakia.” ‘The Herald-Tribune correspondent from Paris writes the following (Sept. 22) about Layal’s visits “The third point uppermost in Laval's thought is disarmament. It is believed that he feels strongly..that Europe’s greatest dan- ger is Bolshevism, that a great French army is the best possible bulwark against this, and that any weakening of France’s armed forces would be playing into the hands of the Com- munists.” , “If Laval should come to Washington the foremost subject of discussion would be arm- aments. Winston Churchill made a speech in the House of Common in June in which he said that it was not in the interests of Eu- rope that the French army — the bulwark against Bolshevism—should be seriously weak- ened or that we should press unreasonably for its reduction.” : The Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guardian Weekly of September’ 18, reports ‘following: - “There can be no longer any doubt. that the French Government is determined that if possible the Disarmament Conference shall re- sult in no reduction of armaments, or at any rate of the armaments of France and her allies,” Ea The French allies which border on the Soviet Union are being armed feverishly by France to attack the Soviet Union. Rumania and Poland have a “defense” alliance aimed at the U.S. &R. Officers of the French General Staff and its allies of Poland, Rumania and Lituania, etc. are in constant touch preparing to wage a war. on the Soviet Union. The Schneider-Creusot munition works in France are closely alligned with the Skoda munition works in Ozecho- Slovakia, They supply their allies with milit- ary equipment. ic Robert Dell, Paris correspondent of the Man- chester Guardian, in an article about France in the Nation of September 23, says: “...But itiis reported that motor factories are now in many cases making thunitions... I have not beeh apie to verify the report, which I have only just heard, but it is not at all improbable, for the French General Staff is making feverish pre- parations, which if we did not know that France has signed the treaty of ‘Locarno and the Kel- log Pact, would suggest, let us say, military pre~ parations in the near BY GROPPER It is probable that the Hoover-Laval discus- sions will touch on the question of war debts |. andthe moratorium, the gold question as well as armaments. American imperialism will use this opportunity as a lever against its rival, Britain, on the question of war debts, while France will use American “friendship” against Britain for the part it played.at the Paris and London conferences in July in opposing .a Franco-German alliance at that time. Despite the fact that the antagonisms and thé tontra- dictions among the imperialist powers are tear- ing the system apart, the imperialists are not hesitating in preparing for war against the U.S. SR. The American capitalist. presseas an ex- ample, is carrying on propaganda against the Soviet Union. ‘ ‘The News of Newport, R. I,, on September 19 writes: “If forno other reason than: Soviet Russia, Europe cannot disarm. No agreement that Russia. would make could be trusted for deception of the capitalistic world is part of the approved program’ of the Russian Soviet government. Russia stands there, perpetual me- nace to peace, perpetual threat.” ‘The Sun of Lowell, Mass., on August 24 says tite following: “In order to save Germany from the danger of Bolshevism, it is necessary. that she should haye an understanding with France for their mutual benefit. “Now that both are menaced by the Com- munistic sweep from ‘Russia, it behooves them to forget their differences and join in friendly accord for their mutual advantage. “In the face of a new enemy that menaces ciyilization, not only France and Germany, but England, Italy and all other Christian nations should stand ready to unite against the Soviet Menace? —~ . _ The Press of Newport News, Va. on Sept. 17, | reports; — “Soviet Russia has the largest army in the world today, but it also has declared for world revolution. ‘The military strength of Soviet Rus- sia is not tobe lightly regarded...when one considers that the Soviet ernment is a sworn enemy of capital and that world revolution is one of its aims they (figures giving Russian military strength) assume a sinister aspect.” The Crimes of the Reaction in Peru - (A Letter From Peru) ()% Jus. 28th the representatives of the fascist .. clique which governs Peru and is headed These 150 political prisoners ‘arrested in var- the country because of their ac- PEE By JOReR To Boo or Not to Boo All the sports writers, of the boss Brest: been discussing the question whether he “tight” or not for the baseball crowd 4)1" adelphia World Series game to have boo, ft President of these’ Benighted States. Whe it was “ethical” or not was decided | crowd, which razzed Hooey Hoover bot! he came and when he departed. Maybe it was because all the banks in Ph went bust the day before. Anyhow it horrii all those who think that because a stock swh ler gets elected to'the presidency that he comes holy, sacred, divine. About this swindling business: We've’ be looking over a book that tells some of the a on Hoover, “The Strange Career of Mr. Hoover by John Hamill, published by William F: Inc., New York City. Written by a cia and from that viewpoint, it still gives the down on Angel Face Fatty. On page 60 it quotes a letter Hoover wrot) some years ago, when he was busy at—‘“the great science of extracting the greatest possible} amount of money from some other human be-™ ing,” as he put it. On the same pege, since Hoover is now moving warships to “save China from Japan,” we call attention to Hamill’s re- mark: “Save the Chinese! Was it not in 1916, when he (Hoover) had hundreds of millions for relief, that Chinese coolies were dropping dead of hunger at Hoover's mines in Burma?” Incidentally, Hoover around 1900 was right in China cheating the Chinese out of vast mining concessions, the Kaiping coal mines for exam- ple, only Herbie got the hammer-lock on the British company he was working for by having: the deed made out to himself, personally, so the company had to give him a big part of the swag. On page 81, we learn in a. quotation from Hoover's own report on the Kaiping mines, exactly what he thinks of workers. He says: “The d@'sregard for human life permits cheap mining by the company by ecconemy in timber and the azgrieved relatives are amply come pensated by the regular payment of $30 per man lost.” 2 (The “timber” mentioned is used in mines te prevent the rock falling from the roof and crushing the w ‘s, we explain for the benes fit of you who ot miners.) Perhevs you don’t mow that the British com- pany, Russo-!“‘etic Consolidated, with which. Hoover was a bi~ cheess, has a “claim” 4 % he agcin:t the S4yiets for *%39,900.900 for its sup quit didn’t get in on, jt boo tish government in 1°79 in London (see pe~2 292 of Hamil’s boot). From what we !*: ey neg? 39, rou cah figure, out why He he gong to save the banks bv np ga A with inflated stocks. In November, 191‘. be formed a com- pany to exploit Russian the “Trtych Cor- poration,” with—says Femi! peid up capital of $35, and a nomine] cevitel of $79.900,000," The ten million is a part cf the $280,000,000 “claim” of the Russo-‘siet's Consolidated against the Bolsheviks wh» unset Herbie’s apple- cart.” No wonder Herbie det:sts Bolsheviks! There is also.a funny story of a man named “Herbert Clark Emery” who got a gold mine in Nicaragua, with a photostat copy of the Nica- Traguan record of the entry, and Hamill says that the original yanished from the N. Y¥. Public Library the day efter he got it photographed. Funny, eh? But*there’s a lot of funny things in this book. pe tac Not a Good Hitching Star “He who gazes at stats may fall in @ ditch,” is.an old saw, but the moral of this incident should probably be: He who speaks to a star may be thrown in a ditch. : Anyhow, in one of the N. Y. sections, there is & funtionary of whom this story is told: A ‘hard-working unit financial secretary, after the Unit Buro had decided that two workers who were remiss in their dues should be given exempt stamps, called on the Section Financial Secretary about it. The latter referred him to the functionary who is the main item on this menu of crocedile delicacies. A When the comrade from the unit got inside the door and was just clearing his throat to say something, he met with the command: “GET OUT!” and this was made ifpreusive by, repitition. j , The comrade from the unit went back to the comrade who sent him into the lion’s den and got only the same orders; he would HAVE: to see this functionary. Another attempt, but only two’ words were spoken when: “GET OUT, I say, GET OUT!” sent him back again wondering if this person was the functionary he was su to see, or some wild man, who had mai 1d to get into the office, | 5 No, his description fitted the functionary and back again he was sent to inquire about nothing more devilish than exempt stamps, But by this time, the comrade who somehow, for reasons unknown to ‘bureaucrats, resents being treated like door-mats, was insistent. Never mind! The intruder must—“GET OUT, or I'LL THROW YOU OUT!” On second thought however, the law of physics amended the order, He would call the provost guard to help. But the summoned comrades refused flatly to carry out the eviction decision, one of them remon- strating with the star performer, while the other led the offender who wished exempt stamps out of the line of fire and assured him: i to EVERYBODY!” Which seems a good reason for not excusing him at all. Anyhow, when the recent Party Plenum die~ cussed hitching its wagon to # star, firuratively speaking, it didn’t mean this sort of shooting star, workers, peasants and native Indians are ter- rorized. It is an immense wave of imperialist i than 200 workers were massacred in the belonging to the petroleum companies. is a petroleum region exploited Yi English companies), and tortured in ‘the streets of than 150 natives were -assassinated in, \ ity g z ~ beat 8 i