The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1931, Page 6

" yay "Page Six 'HE Centra! Con of certe ‘ence among far lagged dang! in th organizing a ovement of the un employed. The fac han two ‘Years of »nemploym has not ‘Organizec iS the most outs ng “If we do not exert a this dangerous the Com Mhunist Party of t of America in the third winter of h more than 10,000,000 fully un ll not be in a posi- tion to carry out its revolutionary task of or- ganizing millions of unemployed into a mighty militant movement At a time when the faith of millions of Ameri ean workers in the.capitalist system has had a mighty blow and’ is steadily he wane, and when the militancy of the ma is increasing rapidiy, this task can be carried o centrate all our efforts on it workers’ struggle (against lynchings, against d cessfully waged w to rally the, MILLIONS of unemployed under its leader- ship in the struggle f nempioyment insur- afice and for immed: relief and bring about a.COMMON FIGHTING FRONT ofall workers, employed and unemployed, gro and foreign-- born, women and youth, for the broadest organ- ized mass struggle, drawing the unemployed into support of strike s‘ruggles, the employed demonstrations for i nee, ete. The Party must immediately make a careful @tudy of the resolution of the PRAGUE CON- FERENCE (Inprecorr Nos: 49 and 50), on t unemployment question, and the tasks set forth in this resolution must be carried out in ac- cordance with American conditions. The Cen- tral Committee points out the chief weaknesses and the main tasks in the organization of the unemployed at the present time: 1. The present practice of carelessly and con- tinuously reformulating slogans without any political need or justification should be discon- tinued for such reformulation can only confuse the workers. The following main slogans are adopted as the basis for a concentrated and in- tensified National campaign in which these slo- gams are to be kept continuously before the workers (a) The Central Unifying Slogan should be: Immediate unemployment insurance at Full Wages, to be paid by the employers and the gov- ernment to all workers; this insurance to be ad- ministered through organs elected by the work- ers themselves. (b) The Main National Slogans, to be used as @ group, and with the unemployment insur- ance slogan, should be: 1. Instead of Hoover's charity proposals, im- mediate federal and state emergency ay:propria- tions to rovide adequate relief to every unem- Ployed worker and his family. 2. Immediate undertaking of extensive public works, particularly new houses, schools, hospi- into | | millions of leaflets, in pamphlets, resolutions and | | | | | ing to the EXAMPLE OF THE SOVIET UNION. dsily except Sunday, quin 4-7956. Cable 50-East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Bast K at 50 “DALW By mail everywhere: One of Manhatian and Bronx, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ar, $6; six monthb, $3; two month: jew York City. $1; excepting Boroughs Foreign: one year, $8; six months, $4.50. etc., in the working-class neighborhoods; to be paid for at trade union wages, evictions of the unemployed;. free rent, | ‘ater, etc., to all unemployed workers and rents for part-time workers. ansform the huge wheat and cotton held by the Farm Board into bread and immediate free distribution among ed: e seyen-hour day, without wage reduc- d six hours for minors and young work- ment of Full Wages to all part-time and “stagger plan” workers by the employers. 7. Prohibition of all forced labor or coercion of any nd in connection with insurance or re- lief for the unemployed. (c) In connection with these slogans, and as a means of developing the struggle for Né- gro rights and against the persecution of the foreign born, the following slogan should be used No discrimination against Negro or foreign- born workers in the payment of relief or insur- ance, or in giving out jobs: no victimization of workers participating in the ynemployed strug- gles! Those slogans should be continuously popu- The resolution of the Cen- tral Committee on the Unem- ployment work covers the general line of policy and general organizational activ- ities. It covers the Unem- ployment work in connection with the National Hunger March about which a special resolution will be published at a later date. The resolution must be carefully studied by all Party organizations and by every Party member. SECRETARIAT, CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C.P.U.S.A. larized in the Party and trade union press, in petitions, at mass meetings, etc., in an effort to reach the millions of unemployed workers, con- vincingly winning them for these demands. By constantly contrasting these s!ogans with the proposals of the bourgeoisie and reformists, they can become a most powerful instrument both for exposing bourgeois and reformist demagogy and for drawing. the broad masses of unemployed workers into organized mass struggle under rev- olutionary leadership. The Party must incessantly compare the wealth of the rich with the poverty of the un- employed: “IN THE RICHEST LAND ON EARTH THERE IS THE GREATEST POV- ERTY AMONG THE UNEMPLOYED.” We must denounce the policy of the American goy- ernment and the American capitalists by point- We must carry on a widespread CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE DISMISSAL OF WORKERS and we must overcome the conception of dismissals and unemployment as something to be accepted as a ‘law of nature.” ‘The demand for unemployment insurance must be put forward not merely as a propaganda slo- gan, as has been the case until now, especially in the “Fight Against Hun7ger” program (Daily Worker, 29-8-31), but os one of the Central Slo- gans of Action. The struggle for social insur- ance, and especially unemployment insurance at the present time, has the greatest revolutionary significance and all tendencies to push it into the background should be decisively combatted- In the marches and demonstrations to take place on the opening of Congress, Dec. 7, this demand for unemployment insurance at Full Wages at the expense of the employers and the govern- ment and to be administered by the workers should receive the chief emphasis as the most effective instrument for exposing the charity proposals of the bourgeoisie and the fake insur- ance proposals of the reformists and “progres- sives.” In addition to the main slogans enumerated above, it is necessary to raise local demands in the various localities, before state legislatures, etc. These local demands should be carefully worked out to conform to the needs of the un- employed workers in the given locality and should be capable of rallying the masses for struggle. They should be for specific public works in the workers’ neighborhoods, for def- inite appropriations for local relief, for more adequate housing, food, etc. for the unem- ployed, against cutting off the workers from the local welfare budget (Detroit), against the wide- spread. graft in the administration of relief, (Pittsburgh, Philadelpiiia), etc. Such jocal de- mands, however, should in no case be used as a substitute for the main demands enumerated above; on the contrary, through a sustained struggle for these local demands, widely popu- larizing every victory gained, no matter how small, the workers must be made to see the possi- bility of winning the broader national demands, especially insurance, by continued mass struggle. The unmasking of the bourgeoisie and reform- ists and the systematic exposure of their pro- posals has been one of the weakest phases of the unemployed work. All tendencies to under- estimate the demoralizing influence of their.con- tinuous propaganda among the unemployed must be decisively combatted. There must be the | closest following of the bourgeoisie and reform- ist press and all the speeches, statement. and proposals of the leading bourgeois, A. F. of L. and socialist spokesmen must be clearly and con- vincingly exposed—not merely denounced., The objective must be, using our partial] demands as the basis, to expose capitalism as such, and to win the workers for the revolutionary struggle against the capitalist system> Polemical articles, Jeaflets and pamphlets. must be the chief method in conducting this fight. Leading spokesmen of the bourgeois and reformist parties (La Follette, Thomas, Muste, Green, etc.) must be challenged to defend their proposals before great mass meet’~s of workers. At all meetings organized by the reformists, leaflets should be distributed exposing their position and Party , comrades should endeavor to get the floor to put forward our demands. 2. The Party, notwithstanding the directive given by the E. C. C. I, has given entirely in- sufficient attention to the development of ef+ fective methods of struggle against Hoover's charity relief system which is the chief bour- geois instrument for demoralizing the workers, for dampening their militancy and for defeating the struggle for unemployment insurance. The Party should-not create the impression that it calls upon the distressed workers to refuse bene- fits even of entirely inadequate charity relief, but as against this starvation it is necessary to energetically put forward the demand for unem- ployment insurance, To make this counterpos- ing of insurance to charity clear to the workers, the Party must, by means of concrete facts ac- tually expose the complete insufficiency of char- ity (using the numerous recent statements of the charity organizations), the rotten food and the methods of raising funds (threat of dis- charge if the workers refuse to give). Unem- ployed committees and councils must fight for control over the income and expenditure of the charity organizations and for control in the preparation and distribution of food, clothing, soup, etc., by representatives of the unemployed: During drives for charity funds the Unem- ployed Councils should tall upon the’ workers to contribute what they are able to give to the Unemployed Councils which should set up a fund fighting for Unemployment Insurance and fot the other demands of the Unemployed Countil. 3. Forms of struggle should be devised which have the possibility of involving the millions of unemployed workers in common and sustained struggle with the employed workers for their joint demands (refusal of employed workers. to leave the factories at time of mass ‘dismissals Unemployment Work with supporting demonstrations of thie ‘uném- ployed outside. the factory, marches, of unem- ployed workers to factories where wage-cuts are posted, assuring the employed wotkers of their support and ‘calling on thém to’ strike, prepara~ tion‘ of ‘actiéns in suppett ot-the unemployéd, ete). tat Demonstrations and hunger marches, it most cases inadequately prepared, have not beer fol- lowed up. “In Detroit, for example, when 26,000 workers € cut off the Welfare Budget, only one déniongtration Was held, arid no other méthod was Utilized tO “arouse the masses for further Struggle ‘against’ the action of the City ‘Council and for the, unemployed ‘demarids. Mass meet- ings (before factories, employment, offices, bread lines,’ in« the neighborhoods, and even larger meetings) should be extensively used at which resolutions exposing the inadequacy of bourgeois. relief measures and endorsing our , demands should be adopted, deputations elected to pre- sent demands to city bodies, -ete.,: with further meetings to receive the report; of the deputation. ete. Such mags meetings should « sespecially . be used to prepare and supplement demonstrations, and to continue the struggle after demonstra- tions. ‘The petition campaigh for the Party’s Uneni- ployment Insurance Bill should be revived and widely used as a means of: getting -wider:con- tacts and influence, especially now with the ap- proach of lotal ahd ‘national elections. ‘The Party should also take immediate,steps to make use of the initiative and referendum laws of thé various states as a further, means of bringing the struggle for unemployment insurance be- fore greater masses of workers. «. The investigations and wide publicity to in- dividual cases of suffering and hunger, using such investigations to expose the charity system and the inadequacy of jocal relief, emphasized in the directives of the E. © C. I, should be taken up with great energy. With regard to the spontaneous bread riots, raids, etc., which will inevitably develop during the coming winter, the Party must have a clearly defined attitude avoiding the “Leftist”. mistakes of last winter. When these events occur the Party must) unconditionally support the right of the workers to take food, clothing, etc., but at the same time must put forward that the fight for bread and clothes makes necessary broad, well-organized, mass actions on the basis of the demands of the unemployed councils, In cases where there are LARGE MASSES of workers determined to fight for bread, the Party must unhesitatingly lead them in the struggle. By thé development of the most flexible and varied methods of ‘stiuggle’ sowing out of the experiences of ‘the unemployed movement, the Party must prépare and catry through even larger mass demonstrations. These must’ be more thoroughly prepared’ in every sense than in , the past, when they tended to be either enlarged street meetings or demonstrations , Which Jost much of their effectiveness due to the ease with which they were disperse (TO BE CONTINUED) UNEMPLOYMENT INSUR ANCE IN OPERATION y A. REVNER. ave suc- rength to of protec- vrotection, as Inadeque‘e as it ier to thing the unemr pect to get from Insurance is at 2 following cc mber of _ 1 023,000; 20,000. ofthe last T the cot ts the un- 7 nd paid out $2,811.00. . Im Gerry: bets out in unem-~ ployment insurance the sum of almost $1.500,000, 000 in 1927-31 period. The mol genero’ ful charity drivers covld 4 se it sums, which in themseiy fficient to com- pletely secu How- ever, the situs housand 2 funds. in- times worse 1 In addition to these sufance there are tr employment insure ing countries: Fran Holland, Denmark, Where compulsory the contributions to fhe fund are usually made by employed, employee and the state: re the voluntary system is in force a larger burden is put on the shoulders of the worker, the em- ployer makes no contribution and the state con- forms s of ‘ mpuls tence | | | | | ing for svch demands on the other | | | | | obedient tributes a small measure to this fund. . ‘The average benefit, paid to an unemployed worker in Germany is Bbout $14 a month. m Tingland it is according to the new reduced rate as follows: For men between the ages of 21 and 65, $3 a ‘week; for women of the same age $4. for boys from 18 to 21, $3.12; for girls from 18 to 21, $2.68. For an adult dependent an additional $2 a week is paid, and for a child, 50c. For a workers fam- of four the average payment would be $7 a ek. It is a very stfiall sum, but compared with paltry sums paid by charity in the United ites it is indeed a considerable amount. At this rate the vast army of unemployed in Amer- i¢a should be getting something like $350,000,000 & month in unemployment relief. Under present Conditions that much in an entire year. [The State of New York has appropriated $20.- 900,000 for unemployment relief. whe City of New York, $15,000,000. The charity drives may Bring an additional $15,000,000. Even that total amount should be doubled. The fund of $100,- 009,000 thus created would not provide for the 000 families in New York State effected by ployment evel @ quarter of what an equiv- nt number of unemployed is receiving in ind. However, one is to béar in mind that workers under the existing conditions of radical corrup- tion and machine rule it is one thing to vote funds for relief and it ‘is altogether a different boa Ma to who will get the benefits of these f “The recent revelations of the Seabury investi- gation as to disposal of the funds in the City stig | York where families with 'y in- comes of $100 and more were the recipients of “re! where the unemployed drove up in costly automobiles to receive their dole, is a story worth knowing. It is therefore imperative that .the workers t for immediate, adequate relief for the unemployed and for a system of unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of the state and industries with the provision that this insurance be paid for the entire period of unemployment, that it b> equal to the regular earning of the workers and it be administered by committees of unemployed and employed workers. Ther in the mind of some workers the doubt as to the feasibility of such a plan.on the one hand and as to the advisability of fight- hand. As to the first doubt which centers around tion of the impossibility of raising the mous funds that such insurance plan would require, it is sufficient to point to the fact that billions are being spent for purposes of we, thet large fortunes are very slightly taxed, thet large incomes should pay a sharply graduated ta to the ond dcubt, which ecne2rrs itself the av Tt a sufficient fund of the w loymer e would net tend to weak- en the class c: ness of the worker, it mév 2 ranlied th the same line of reasoning it should be feared that struggle of the workers for higher pay and against wage cuts would tend to weaken the militant svirit of the workers. To the contrary, whereas the docility and degroda- tion reduce the workers to the position of an slave. it is in the struggle for the im- conditions that he gains vigor tion to fight for his complete provement of and determin: emancipation. Where ti.e worker is “granted reforms” by the of th iter, where he is the beneficiary 1 these sehe mes of social patronage he is ened, demorslized. and poisoned by there Howeve: he wrests from the masters his improvemnets of his condition by fighting for his demands he is hardened with the struggle and is becoming all the more de- termined to fight against the whole system of exploitation. ‘This probably explains why the union bureau- eracy of the American Federation of Labor is so strenuously exposing the introduction of un- employment insurance. To those social fascisis it is more advantageous to deal with a worker much less self-reliant, much less militant, much less secure, much less certain of his rights, and privileges. For the safety of the depenents of the work- er, for the security of the worker himself, for the sake of the army of unemployed that are doomed to permanent idleness for no fault of their own there must be inaugurated a system of unemployment insurance as it was done in many capitalist countries only a more adequate and differently administered one. The fight for unemployment insurance is to becore of first importance for every workers’ organization and for every individual worker, Join the Unemployed Councils and Build Block Committees In Your Neighborhoods | The Party Training School in Detroit By R. BAKER. HE. potentiality of the Regional Training School in Detroit, now being prepared by the Central Committee, can best be seen by a brief glance at the Training School, now being com- pleted in Detroit- Subjects and Methods: ‘The subjects studied at the school are based on the outlines and experiences of the National ‘Training School and are so arranged as to be of immedic‘te practical value to the comrades in theis Gay to day work. There are three main subjects: Fundamentals of Communism, Struc- ture and Work of the Party, Trade Union and. Unemployment Problems. Each of the three main subjects is subdivided into topics, dealing with some specific phase of the subject. Each of the subjects combines theoretical work with every day practical problems. Supplementing the three main subjects are a series of from four to six lectures which round out the course, and give comrades a general background. The lectures are so adjusted as to fit in with the practical tasks déalt with in the classes. For examplc, the lecture on the Negro question pre- cedes the study of forms and methods of work among thé Negro masses. The entire school is run on the self study principle. For each topic there is an outline which states the problem, indicates the reading material, which is based on the amount of time at the disposal of the students, and gives the Control Questions to guide the students in reading and discussion. The students are divided into study groups of 5 each, and the time of study groups is so ar- ranged that a two hour study group takes place just prior to ech Conference of the student body at which reports are made.and a general dis- cussion takes place under the guidance of an instructor who is diréctly in charge of the par- ticular work with which the topic deals. The study groups are given assignments and tasks that correspond with the problems they will be faced with in thé cities, mass organiza- tions and mass activities. In dealing with strike Strategy, one group is charged with developing @ plan for the District Committee of the Party in a given situation, another group is assigned relief work as their task, etc, With each new development in the District, the problems in the school are connected. The par- ticular difficult probiéms of given sections are made by subjects of study: Each important campaign, such as Hunger March, War Danger, are treated as practical tasks by assigning study groups as committees to prepare plans for given activities or phases of work, and by assigning students es unit organizers or other responsible funtionaries so that the class es well as the study group actually becomes a committee that deals with a real concrete problem. Inner School Life, The location of the school is such that the students can work more intensely and more ef- fectively because they are together 24 hours a day. Regular hours of study, rest, sleep, exer- cises and recreation build up the health and the hands of the students simultaneously. The enthusiastic support of the school by the Party. Unemployed Councils, mass organizations and sympathizers has made it possible to conduct the school at a very low cost largely due to consid- erable donations of foodstuffs. ‘The six weeks Regional ‘Training School will Joint Manifesto of the Communist Parties of China and Japan AGAINST THE ARMED OCCUPATION OF MANCHURIA| i he turned around BY JAPANESE IMPERIALISM Workers and Peasants of China and Japan! Japanese imperialism is the common enemy | of the workers and pecsants of China and Japan. The Japanese imperialists not only exploit and oppress the Japanese workers and peasanis. but elso exploit and cppress. the Chinese wetkers “nd peasants. ‘The present armed occupation of Manchuria by Japanese imperialism is a direct action to itn Manchuria into a corpiete 2apanese eo‘eny. This is to further exploit the Chinese and Ja= panese masses and ot further attack the Soviet Umenvvhich is successfully building up sociatisny The workers and peasants of China and Japan determinedly fight egainst this outragecus ac. tion of Japanese imperialism. The Kyomintang has facilitated imperialist aggressions, has capi- tulated to imperialism and has united with the imperialists to oppress, exploit and murder the Chinese masses. In order to overthrow imper- ialism the Chinese workers and peasants must also overthrow the Kuomintang. The workers and peasants of China and Ja- pan firmly believe that only through their united struggle against Japanese and world impérial- ism and the Kuomintang, through the establish- ment of their own governments, the Soviet gov- ernments of the workers and peasants, with their own army forces, the red armies, can there lid final liberation for the tolling, masses. ‘The workers and peasants of China and Japan, therefore, must exert the utmost determination to defend the Soviet Union, the Fatherland of the international working class, to struggle agéinst imperialism and its lackey, the Kuomin- tang, to support the heroic Chinese Army end the Chinese Soviets which are really struggling for the liberation of the Chinese masses! Workers and peasants of China and Japan! Among ourselves, there is not any racial grudge and prejudice. We have our common enemy and therefore we are marching towards the same direction. We must fight energetically against any propaganda of race prejudice and patriotism to break the international unity of the oppressed masses. This propaganda is a trick to fool the masses of one nation to murder their toiling brothers of another nation for the interest of the ruling class! Workers and peasants of China and Japan,” Unite! We must fight determinedly under thé following slogans: Struggle against the armed occupation of anan churia by Japanese imperialism! The immediate withdrawal of the Japanesé army, navy and air forces of all imperialists from be conducted even more effectively due to lessons drawn from the first school, and direct leader- ship of the Central Committee, Following the Regional School, another Dist- - rict School will be held. Sympathizers and friends of the movement can do a great deal to support the school by b: ig donations China! Down. With all imperiali Confiscate all imperialist properties in China! Support the. Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolution in Japan! Detend the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army! Defend the Soviet Unio: : Down with the punting; the soo] of ‘int. 1a! Fight the false prop2gend: of national ion pattiolism! ‘The tolling masces of Chir Long: live the Worul.. Central Committee, Communist Party, China. Central Committee, Communist Party, Japan. (September, 1531). ES and Jupan, Unite! Flood the Line’ of ‘the Hunter Mare With Vtersiure LOOD the line of the Hunger Mareh with * erature. Recently we had ‘a statement on’ this. We don't want to repeat the: statement again, only want you comrades to Tememtber: Mas:*; will march|in the hunger march. Mt masses \.{\ line the match. Get our literal to these militant workers and fermers. FLOOD THE LINE OF THE HUNGER MARCH WITH LITERATURE,’ The following titeravure should be Brought to the foreground: Unemployment Relief and Social Insurance . .02 Secvtt Hoover-Laval War Pacts, ‘by Bark BROWGOR oe Soa 3 55.1 dah at Fight Against Hunger, Statement “ot” ‘the Communist Party to the Fish Commitice Social Insurance, by Grace M. Burnham ... American peprsine Women and the Class x th in indusirs, by Grace : ‘out lutchins , Lynch Justice at Work by B,D. Amis .., Cominunist Call to the ‘Tolling Farmers k Revolutionary Struggle Against War vs. Pa- * sues by Alex Bittélman ............,. nti-Soviet Lies and the Five Year Plan, Max Bedach i Orders should bé sent in ‘itthediately to Workers Library Publishers, P. O. Box Fy te. tion D, New York City. Agit-Prop Department, aaa! Committee, COLLECT FUNDS FOR THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH! — ' VOLUNTEER AS A couLEctoR IN THE TAG DAYS. ‘LANY CITIES HOLD TAG DAYS THIS food-stuffs to 2419 Grand River Avenue, Det | SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, | Bafa | Pipe slep meee Statisticians “We suppose you. have -heard. the old crack about there being three kinds of liars; plain liars, darned liars and statisticians. ‘Well, if you have any, doubt about the current validity of that remark, just pipe the following letter, written on the letterhead of the Depart- ment, of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Wash- ington, D, C., dated November 16, 1931: “Dear Mr. P.........:—In 1929 there were six degths from starvation in the registration area ofthe United States, and in 1928 there were eighteen. ‘This registration area in these _two years included 94.7 and 95.6 per cent of the total population. Very truly yours, M. D, Chief Statistician for Vital Statistics,” ‘You see what is to be gotten of these “sta- tistics”! A worker, a thousand workers, may starve to death for lack ot food. But since death is accompaniéd“by stoppage of the heart, they are put down as -having died “from heart disease.” Incidentally, the comrade who sent us this, has been hot-footing it all around to find “sta- tistics,” as' though he expected seriously to tmd capitalism indicting itself. And what’s worse, he Seems to be overwhelmed at every occasion some School teacher (he is a student) makes some idiotic apology for capitalism and its starvation of the toiling masses. The facts of life mean little beside what “my teacher says.” For example, after we wrote him once about starvation deaths being covered up by statisti- cians as due to some other disease, he comes back this way: “You said pellagra is caused by lack of proper food. My economics teacher denied it, and stated that people are afflicted by it no matter what the physical condition might be» The encyclo- pedia states-that there are about six theories concerning the subject; the last of which is the starvation theory. Have you any further in- formation”? . Now we are the last person in‘ the world to discourage research, but if you are so dead on trusting to statistics and teachers as this com- rade, we advise you to quit school and go get a jJob_ (or try to!) in a textile mill in Georgia or a steel mill in Alabama and get some common sense knocked. into your bean. And please re- call that there are capitalist “scientists” who / can “prove” that economic crises are “caused by sun spots.” May a Negro Laugh \ From a comrade of New York we get the tol- Jowing enlightening account of how capitalist authorities try to discriminate against Negroes even in the most-simple rights. He says in part: “Task, you, May a Negro laugh? ? “AS yout '/kiow, the revolutionary upsurge is expressing itself daily in the form of spontancous street’ gatherings of groups of workers who talk over their conditions. And I haye noticed strike sentiment growing in the underwear manuface turing district of New York east of Fifth Avenue trom Madison Square up to about 32nd Strees. “Walking along this section, I noticed a dick harassing’a group of workers. “Move on! Keep moving!” Wheti the workers merely moved along leisurely, he got red in the face and started threatening them. The cop looked so silly that the we to giggle es soon as he started ¢ and worke> in the group, he dd: “Whet are you laugning 2 “or a thoment the sensing “the sdlicavity militantly fired b: of the c ‘What's the métt hing, Why can't can't y that the crowd was gettine the was no chance to pell in a { it, the 's having a réal pomment on this, that the shovld have had thing to say at this euivegocus kon the right of ferce of the ould NOT be levi to the Negro ‘alone, White eos take the initiative. Another Spike 1 speat Jorg,” writes’C. W. of New Yor another spike + “Ths faccnrats’ N. Y. Times wrote on its edi- torial pagé-of No-. 11 that the Dnieperstzei hy- dvo-electric Works will gene: vate only 180,000 Horse pow Then it pointed to the Osege dam’s 263, horse power as being one and a half times Jarger, From this followed the moval, Aesop style, that.the capitalist system is superior to the Soviet. “Some cock-eyed capitalist editor must conveniently seen the “one” in front of tire “3 because it happens that Dnieperstrot will gs erate 810,000 (eight hundred and ten tho 34) hors? power ‘instead of 180,000 (one hundred and eigiity thousand), es the Times liar put itt “Escides; df it takes long to decide how to run Osage as it does Muscle Shoals, the grafters hero won't get’ much out of it until the third Five Year Plan ts well under way. “By the way, have you seen any correction of the Times. figiites in that honest paper? I haven’t.. Maybe: correction isn’t ‘fit to print.” Incidentally, we have a letter from Las Vegas, Nevada, where.the big Hoover dam is being ouilt, and it says: “We are waiting at the gateway of misery. Workers sleeping on the bare ground. No bed- | ding. On the dirt floor of saloont which never close. In the parks, in wagons and autos, Work- ers begging, starving and in misery. No or- ganization, .No working-class literature.” Let the N.Y, Times dare to say that such conditions, even though life is hard yet for t workers, exists in Dnieperstroi! Soviet papers, pleas¢ copy! i We Hate to Mention It: That is, Buffalo, N.Y. But it must be done in defense of the National Office of the ¥.C.L. You sée, one of the “Y" leaflets piit out way back before International Youth Day, which was Sept. 8 had an appi.ce- tion blank~on it which a Rochester girl signed and ent ¢ tothe N. O. in New York City, During the irst week in November the Rochester League got the application from the District, The N.O. an it sent that application RIGHT AWAY to the District Office of the League in Butteio, Now er ahead and Buffalo that! And te’l us pare, tee Ps ‘application was “resting” cll that