The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1931, Page 4

. New Y Page Four th Street THE EDUCATION AND LABOR ENTHUSIASM OF THE New York, N. Yorker”. Porty U.S.A. Si MASSES IN USSR. FIVE-TENTHS milliard rubles are s, cultural needs, pensions, mpared with five mil- nufactured ar- from 11.6 to 15.6 order to guarantee ply of manufactured for cadres realth protection, co! an improve articles a pr: stributive centers have been established which the workers receive larger rations . Public feeding is making progress: r of people catered for is more than of 1930, i.e., 42.8 per cent of the total umber of workers (five million workers), 3,800,- ate ug! 000 other urban working elements, 3,000,000 school children, having at their disposal a net- work of 18,400 feeding centers). The erstwhile illiterate, unculttred country has already liquid- ated illiteracy , and is training undreds of thousands of its own engineers. A large number of higher technical colleges, tech- nical schools and courses are being opened for the education and training of the proletarian in- telligentsia. The proletariat and all the work- ers of the USSR are fighting for mastery over technique. Schools are provided for all the chil- dren ool age. The press is rapidly growing. Thus, fri 605 newspapers in 1928 there are al- ready 1,409 (a growth of 133 per cent) in 1931, with an edition of 30.9 million (a growth of 238 | per cent) in the first quarter of 1931, The army of worker and village correspondents is growing, it is already over 2,000,000 strong. All these attainments, all the victories won by king class of the USSR take place under icult conditions of the construction ot socialism in capitalist surroundings. They were and are possible only on the basis of proletarian dictatorship, and owing to the correct line of the , the USSR has achieved a great deal, and has Party and the growing initiative and enthusiasm of the working class. y and nine-tenths million workers ,12.8 mil in the towns, and 48.1 in the villages) participated in the Soviet elections in 1931. The million strong army of shock brigaders which is steadily growing, the development of the plan from below, which, by mobilizing all the in- al economic resources, increases production indreds of millions of rubles, bolshevist self- criticism of organizational defects, in the plan- z of production and carrying through of the ans, all this combined accelerates the develop- ment of socialist economics. The workers who, from being the object of exploitation have be- come the subject of production, the masters of the country, create new forms of labor, build up a socialist society This enthusiasm of the working class of the USSR is due to the fact that after the October revolution it has become the ruling class, the real master of its own fate, the builder of a new life, the leader of all toilers in their struggle for the final victory of socialism. The rapid growth of the socialist industry, the output of which has increased 45 per cent in one year, brings with it more and more tasks of various kinds which arise before the masses of workers, giving an outlet to their creative energy and before the CPSU which gives a lead to the great work of socialist construction according to plan. The conversion of a gigantic agrarian country, but recently a backward country com- pared with the advanced capitalist countries, into a modern industrial and agrarian country, is connected with a whole series of difficulties which are being overcome, and takes place in constant struggle against the right and “left” opportunist. The difficulties, for instance, the shortage of skilled labor power, which is still being felt, es- pecially when gigantic tasks of a new kind have to be solved, the lack of concrete leadership capable of dealing with all economic details, in many cases an inadequate organization of the labour process, the fact that the transport ser- vice has for a time lagged behind the tempo of the industrial development, the defects in the organization of supply—all this is being gradu- ally overcome with stubborn energy on the basis of the Marxist-Leninist line of the CPSU, and by drawing broad masses of workers into active co-operation. On the basis of constant and con- scientious study of every separate task and of the difficulties connected with it, on the basis of broad self-criticism and @atly struggle against right and “left” opportunists, the proletariat of been able’ to overcome the difficulties of con- struction. The labor enthusiasm of the masses which is growing on the basis of genuine and wide prole- tarlan democracy, bolshevist self-criticism, ruth- less struggle against all opportunistic views which reflect fear of the difficulties encountered in the carrying through of important tasks, or an ignoring of these difficulties, guarantee the further victorious progress of socialism on one- sixth of the globe under the firm leadership of the CPSU. The heroic struggle of the proletariat of the | USSR for the solution of the great tasks of the socialist plan is closely intertwined with the struggle of the world proletariat against hunger, reaction, and the war danger, and for proletarian dictatorship and a victorious world October. Street Corner Meetings and the Election Campaign By S. VAN VEEN. HERE is only a week left before tne elections to reach the workers of New York and to bring them our program. It is a short time and we have been guilty of much neglect but we can speed up and correct some of our mistakes even now. The sections must hold as many meetings as possible between now and Noy. 3. At these meet- ings we must not fail to have a platform, a flag, a sign, a chairman and several hundred copies of the C. P. elections program. Speakers in the past have arrived at meetings to find that one or all of the above necessary parts of the ma- chinery have been missing. ne next question to be considered is the ques- tio. of the neighborhood. Speakers should be selected according to neighborhood. Also if a speaker is sent to a Socialist stronghold, he should + know how to speak to their followers. This is most important. Speakers should be equipped for this purpose. Now comes the most important part of all. What is the speaker going to talk about and how 4s h> going to put it over? A speaker needs to use his common sense to speak to the workers about the things that con- The Soviet Union spends billions on social insurance. The Wall Street Government spends millions on war. Attend the November 7th celebration mass meetings. What is the Soviet Economic System? By J. STALIN The Soviet economic system means that: 1. The power of the capitalist class has been overthrown and displaced by working class power 2. The instruments and means of production. and the land and the factories, etc., have been taken away from the capitalists and made the property of the working class and the peasants. 3. The development of production is not gov- erned by the principle of competition and as- srance of capitalist profit, but the principle of control and systematic improvement aterial and cultural conditions of the bution of the national income is n favor of the exploiting classes and their numerous parasitic flunkeys, but in the inter- ests of a systematic improvement of the ma- terial conditions of the workers and peasants and the enhancement of Socialist production of town and country. 5. The systematic improvement of the mate- rial conditions of the workers and the constant rise in the demand and the buying power which hes become a permanent source for the expan- sion of production, which pfétects the working class from over-production and from unem- ployment, ete. 6. The working class is ruling the country, it does not toil for the capitalists but for itself. ay NOVEM ne cern them right now. Our speakers many times go out of their way to talk about theories; about the past and the future; about Canada and Turkey, when the workers are wondering what that has to do with New York City, unemploy- ment, the Democrats and the high cost of rent and electricity. In a New York election speech what is the use of wasting time to go all around the world, while leaving the local issues untouched? What is just as bad is that the speakers have a way of slinging phrases and using a language that is totally foreign to the average worker of New York City or any other city. Don’t say to the workers, “We must link up the special demands of the workers with the election campaign.” Don’t say, “The sharpening antagonisms alarm- ingly threaten,” etc. Unfortunately this is often the language of our Party press so the speakers are not to be altogether blamed. What should we talk about in our street corner speeches? We should speak first about those things that affect the workers here, now, in this city. Unemployment, evictions, the raise in the electric light rates. We should explain why the city government gives billion dollar corporations like the Edison Co. the right to raise rates and prices at a time when the workers are starving. Show the right of the workers, fathers and mothers to demand warm free food and clothing for all school children. Bring in the fact that the city has over 600 millions of dollars to spend for big salaries for government officials, and for all kinds of million dollar contracts for so-called city improvements. Mention some of the find- ings of the Seabury Committee. Point out that all the above happens in the city, state and federal government, both under Republicans and under Democratic administra- tion. Show the betrayals of the Socialist Party, of Thomas, Hillquit, Lee, Pankin and Broun and the rest of them. Say something about Ramsay MacDonald, the Socialist, and the Bruening government, which is supported by the social democrats of Germany. The betrayals of the American Federation of Labor must not be ommitted. Green, Woll, Lewis, Fagen, Holderman and other labor fakers. In the question of the vote, our speakers should themselves understand why we go into the elections and what the value of a Commu- nist candidate in halls of government would be, Explain that the vote is one of many weapons and should be pushed with all energy. Point out the value of big vote enrollment for the revo- lutionary prosram of the Party. The enormous preparations for the coming war must be men- tioned and the latest developments in Man- churia. Show some of the contrasts between Communist Russia and Capitalist U. S. But don’t forget that the entire speech should be based around the local issues in the elections and then leading up to the war preparations and the U. 8. 8. R. Remember that we are making election speeches and have not got the time to mention everything in the world. We are in New York City. Tens of thousands of workers and their children are suffering in this city right now. If you can make the workers see the reasons for all this and prove to them logically what must be done to better their conditions, then the speaker will have just about all that can be handled in the given time. \ By HARRISON GEORGE. MONG the “Upper” class, the “400” of New York City, the “imperial city” as its Tammany mayor correctly calls it, it is all the rage to hold “hard times parties” or “pov- erty parties.” Strung along the shores of Long Island and out in West- chester County, far beyond the million-crowded slums of Manhattan and Harlem, great houses sit among trees and lawns of broad estates. Here live the rich, the rulers not only of New York City, but of America, the nobility of Wall Street, the parasite roy- alty of the world. About’ these chronically “unemployed,” a recent issue of the N. Y. World-Telegram informs us: “Following the lead of summer East Hamptonites and ' residents of nearer Long Island who have staged successful hard times parties in recent months, the northern suburban- ites tonight are te have a poverty party at Irvington. The home of Mr. and Mrs. E. A Matthiessen has been decorated to serve as a setting for the party.” Ah, yes, the “socialist” party tells you that these wealthy “also suffer from the depression.” And while they “suffer,” is it not fitting that they show some evidence of “pain”? At least they must have their little joke, these “un- So why not “hard touchables” of the Social Register! times parties’! The Goelets, the Vanderbilts, the Harrimans and Astors, the Goulds, Kahns and Rosenthals (there is little anti- Semitism among the elite) and the Bordens (who live in luxury by cheating tenement babies with watery milk at monopoly prices), all these and many more, any one of whom could fill and never miss the $12,000,000 quota set by “char- ity” to feed the one million jobless of New York all winter, are holding “hard times parties.” Silk underwear below overalls. artists in grease paint. soup-kitchens. suffer! “YOU GIVE LOVELY HARD-TIME PARTIES, MRS. HEAVYBOTTOM.” Paris lingerie below gingham gowns borrowed from the “kitchen-help.” Cham- pagne in tin cups. Down-and-outers made up by expensive Lots of jokes about breadlines and An “unemployed” Duchess of Rexburghe and an “idle” director of the Stock Exchange. How they DO You can tell it by their LAUGHTER! But you, the millions of workers who know the hell of worry that comes with hard times, the desperation of being jobless and penniless! They are laughing at YOU! LAUGH- yattan and Bronx, New York City. POVERTY! SUPSCRIPTION RATES: everywhere: One year, $6; ‘six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs Foreign: one year, $8; six months, $4.50. ING AT YOUR MISERY! MAKING A PARODY OF YOUR There isn’t any joke about YOUR hard times parties. It wasn’t any joke for Floyd Host, aged 45, told of in the N. Y. “News,” who asked to be sent to prison because he wanted “three squares a day” and who died in the prisoners’ pen at the West Side Court of starvation before he could be transferred to prison where Judge Harris sent him. That was in New York City, the “imperial city.” But like most”? only ten minutes, dead.” ‘ overthrow yours! out West, in Denver, there was another kind of “hard times party” Oct. 19, in the home of Thomas Folger, a jobless garage worker. And THAT party was no joke: Folger’s little daughters, June, who is ten, and Marjorie, who is eight years old, climbed on his knees when he came home and sank into a chair at the end of another day’s vain hunt for work. He jingled his last few pennies: “Papa’s going to give you a surprise. What would you “Ice cream,” the little ones chorused. They had tasted no ice cream all summer. “Ice cream it is,” said Folger, and gave them the coins— his last. To the corner store with mother. They were gone But when they returned, “Papa was But now. . .! No way of solving anything, of course. But it was a REAL hard times party. Not like the ragged hypocrisy of New York's “society.” that millions feel at this moment, while you read this! Workers! Do not submit to starvation! Don’t commit suicide! There is a BETTER WAY, the way of STRUGGLE! Together with ALL workers, in MASSES, you can win— security, food, shelter, clothing. The workers of old Russia fought and WON! Fourteen years ago this November 7th, they overthrow their capitalists; just as you can and will It was the same dark desperation Today and now, unite, all of you, employed with unem- ployed! Demand unemployment insurance, Winter relief of $150 to each jobless worker, immediate aid to the destitute! Join the Unemployed Councils! When you vote, vote Com- munists into city office where they can do more to force the capitalists to pay back in relief some of the profits they have taken from your sweat and labor! Hunger March on Washington! YOUR hard times seriously! Support the National Make the idle rich take re es fA eee ase 9 BER 7th -- ceLeBRATE THE TRIUMPHANT MARCH OF SOCIALISM IN THE SOVIET UNION ON ITs 14th ANNIV THE GROWING CREDIT CRISIS IN THE CAPITALIST COUNTRIES— THE STRENGTHENING OF THE CREDIT SYSTEM IN THE SOVIET UNION (Excerpt from an editorial of the Moscow “Isvestia” of Oct. 4). The words “bank” and “crash” are becoming almost synonyms in the lands of capital. The foreign press in the course of the current year has been carrying a ceaseless stream of news about bankruptcy of credit institutions. This news having become very frequent is losing its sensational character. About the closed doors of banks, about the crashes of industrial enter- prises connected with these banks, about the panic among the depositors one speaks as of an ordinary street event. And only at a time when the crisis, like gan- grene, begins to devour “the rock foundatioris” of the financial economy of England, when “the bank of banks.” (the Bank of England) begins to tremble for the fate of its doors of its world financial hegemony, then only there in the west one begins to form conception of the actual dimension of the economic crisis which has grasped the capitalist system and to fear for the future. In Germany one says that this winter will be “the most difficult, the most fear- ful one,” only in Germany alone? In the light of these facts the growth and the strengthening of the credit system of the Soviet Union are especially significant. ‘The 2,554 branches of the State Bank (Gos- bank), 98 per cent of which are in the districts, are the conductors of Soviet trade through the Union. The 3,000 treasuries of the enterprises and plants are completing this giant net. And this credit institution does not know any On the Carrying Out of the 13th PA 5 Plenum Decisions ‘The Central Committee is resuming the column on Party life which was Suspended during the Period of the discussions on the 13th Plenum of the Central Committee, ; In the Party Life column we call upon the Party members to give us their experiences with regard to mass work, especially on unemploy- ment and the economic struggles, particularly on strike struggles, and upon our trade union work. We are especially interested in having in the Party Life column the experiences of our com- tedes in applying the slogan of the 1°th Plenum of “face to the big factories.” In the Party Seine ip Shs ising Se tS eS crisis, crashes, bankruptcies, Included in the single national economy system of the Soviet Union, subordinated to the tasks of the achievement of a single economic plan of Socialist construction, the Soviet bank, though it may encounter difficulties arising from time to time these are difficulties of tremendous growth which upon all parts of the national economic front are being overcome from day to day by the land of arising socialism and with its credit system. In the Soviet Union wage increase and the universal introduction of the seven-hour day. In capitalist America wage cuts and the slave stagger plan. Attend the November 7th cele- bration mass meetings, Conducted by the Organization Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S. Life column we want to know how the new methods are being developed, what wrong ten- dencies exist and how the Party is combatting them. As far as possible we ask for concrete instances of attempts to put the Party line and Party directives into effect, the obstacles in the -Way, \and the methods which members use to overcome them. ‘The Party Life column should be conducted on the line of the policy of self-criticism which means not only to criticize incorrect methods or incorrect tendencies but also to indicate in what Ways such methods and tendencies can be over- come. It means furthermore to show good ex- amples of how the line is being put into effect for the benefit of Party units and Party organi- zations. We particularly call upon rank and file comrades to contribute to the Party Life column on this basis, ORG. DEPT., CENTRAL COMMITTEE Send all contributions for the Party Life Col- umn to Party Life, Org Department, Central Committee, (address P.O, Box 87, Station D., New York, N. Y¥.), Those that we find not suitable for the Party Life column and which we will find useful for the Party Organizer, we will use accordingly. Those that we do not find suitable for either, we shall acknowledge by mail and the reasons therefor. nt ORG. DEPARTMENT. Over 11 million unemployed in capitalist America. Unemployment Hquidated in the So- viet Union. Attend the November 7th Celebra- _tion mass meetings. Red By JORGE Purgatory “The single subject of conversation at Present is the world wide depression. Bank failures; low values on farm products; lack of employ- ment. All these sad conditions have given the world just this—a multitude of people in want.” ‘True enough, so far. But Father Quille who signs a letter and some circulars of prayerful nature coming from Chicago, says we have not looked up “the proper director.” In fact he says: “We have turned to political officials when our thoughts should have centered upon Him who clothes the lilies of the fleld and fed the birds of the air.” The jobless thousands around West Madison and Halsted Streets in Chicago are, of course, not “lilies of the field,” neither are they “birds “ ae air,” so they get neither clothing nor eet But Father Quille bids them put all that aside: “November is approaching. It is dedicated by the Church to the Souls in Purgatory. Grati- tude,should prompt us to pray for them.” And an accompanying blank offers to en- roll you in the “Purgatorial Society” for three separate kinds of prayers, at Five Bucks per prayer, by either “check or money order.” “Your Dead are sick-a-bed, perhaps, in Pure gatory, and now appealing to you through us.” Send them the prayers and send us the money! Thanks, “Father,” for the advice, but the job- jess are in the Purgatory of capitalism, and any cash we have will go to the national hunger march on Washington. Saar eats 5 How It Happened On August 9, we received a letter from J. & of Jersey City, saying: “I would like to help the working class move- | ment and wish to have an interview with some organizer of your Party here in Jersey <ity. Could you please let me have his name and ad- dress as soon as possible.” The curtain rose on the next scene for us on Oct. 16, when we got a letter from the Y.C.L. or- ganizer of the New Jersey section, saying that ‘the letter we got on August 9, had been given to the Party organizer on Oct. 12 by the District. Also, and this is the joke of it, the writer of the inquiry had accidentally, it appears, run across the Y.C.L. in Jersey, joined it Sept. 15, and is now membér and Agit-Prop director of the Unit. “This is a young worker,” says the Y¥.C.L. or- ganizer, “who did not wait for the red tape of the Party to reach him. He broke through.” How did it happen? Well, in the Daily Office, we do not have the addresses of all functionaries, and sent the letter to the District, where it was carefully preserved in the desk of a functionary who recently wrote a brilliant article for the Daily against red tape and delay in recruiting members. eR oats Some Capitalist Plans In New York State there are 388,883 persons ten years of age or older, who are illiterate, or 3.7 per cent of the total above 10 years of age. The Washington, D. C., “Committee on Illiter- acy,” run by the Interior Department, exclaims joyously that*the above figure was less than the number ten years ago by 36,139. Let’s see. This means that, at the present rate, in something over 100 years, all of these il- literates would have been taught to read and write. But unfortunately, they will all be dead by that time. And, what's more, a new crop of illiterates raised. For it is admitted that “the number of white native illiterates increased dur- ing the same time from 28,406 to 34,654. These capitalist organizations who teach illit- erates to read and write are usually called “Americanization Commissions.” So it looks like they were going to be busiest Americanizing Americans. : Another “plan” is that of The Doak (you knew what a Doak is, don’t you?) to “solve” unem- ployment by deporting about 20,000 foreign-born workers per year. ‘The Doak has a 555 Year Plan. Because it would take just that long to deport enough foreign-born workers to give the 11,000,000 un= employed all jobs. . Another little difficulty is that a big per- centage of the unemployed are foreign-born and most of those employed are native-born, and if all the foreign-born are deported, the Americans might strike for higher wages because there would be nobody to take their jobs. Anyway you look at it, the capitalists have a tough time. o 8 6 “Adequate” Relief: Dr. G. A. Lundquist, head of the Board of Public Welfare in St. Paul, Min- nesota, is seeing that the jobless get “adequate” relief. He fixed it up for 2,000 kids to attend a movie by paying admission with four potatoes each. Then says he, “8,000 potatoes will be dis- tributed among the destitute of St. Paul.” The only trouble is, there are 16,000 heads of fami- lies out of work in St. Paul. One-half of one spud to each family, that’s “adequate” relief! eens Arrested for “Gossip”: A respectable German baker of Harrisburg, Pa., was pinched last week for “gossiping.” It appears that he had sald that some banks are not all that burglars crack them up to be, and he wes hauled in under the law against talking thet wes passed in June this year, end. signed by Mr, Liberal Pinchot. The only trouble was that one of the towns “reliable” banks had busted five days before! Cat Ya | Making Edison Religious: Edison was a Freee thinker, a skeptic, and not religious. But since he’s dead, the capitalist press is trying to make him religious anyway. On March 17, 1930, he wrote: “Give me five more years and the United States will have a rubber crop that can be util- ized in twelve months’ time.” Now we hold that there’s nothing more about an “appeal to God” in that than there is in the Soviet Five Year Plan. But a capitalist news syndicate is sending an article over the country saying that Edison “addressed a plea to God” to be let live another five years, Well, if he did, God didn’t pay much attention, or else God was against the United States having a supply of rubber, up ERSA &