The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1931, Page 4

’ Published by 13th Gt. New York City, N. Y Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 Hast 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. he Comprodatly Publishing Co. Inc. datly except Sunday, at 60 Bast Cable “DAIWORK.” Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Support By 5 HORWATT, Secretary of the Committee for the Pro- tection of the Foreign Born. HE Industrial History of America is a history full of superhuman suffering and exploita- ion of the working masses in general and the Negro and Foreign-Born in particular. There is not one basic industry, in which thousands of foreign-born workers have not only lost their nealth, but have even lost their lives. The hard- est and the most dangerous work in this country fms been dons by Negroes and foreign-born ‘ers. Of the industrial history of the United States, can justly be said, that ® great part of it has been written with the sweat and blood of he foreign-born workers. But now. Mr. William’ Doak dares to report the 72nd Congress that “immigration, how- is no longer a substantial economic menace progress.” And continues: “To register he foreign- born, to make naturalization more inger-print those who are about to zens and to deport all those that the considers wndesirables. wyer, Mr. Doak (read NY eve fn difficult, to become citi rmmer Is the corporation Progress” ignorant Capitalistic the fact that Veaith) has been squeezed out of wn of these very same foreig y e government is now trying to per: Are capitalist ckeys and enemies of the working masses ignorant of the fact that in such industries as iron, steel, oil, leather, meat, rom 61 to 67 per cent of the workers are foreign-born? Don’t they know this? Ofcourse do, But their approach to the foreign born e same as to the working man in general jong as he is needed in the machine of ex- ation is taken advantage of. But as as he ceases to be a@ source of profits, he is m out of the industry, which he has built, neans of sustainance. iis, it is sufficient to mention the illions of unemployed go about hun- government does nothing whatever tial value to relieve them. But y masses refuse to be silent about it. are organizing a mighty struggle ment insurance and immediate re- s because of this that the govern- i ive campaign to discrim- and deport foreign-born work- lestroy the solidarity front of the d Congress states: “I recommend deportation laws should be strength- Aliens lawfully residing in this country, pould be protected by the issuance of certifi- cates cf residence. ju President Hoover did not dare to name mn for his statement openly, then Sec- of Labor Doak did it for him. In the rt mentioned report to Congress, Doak and openly stated that all discrim~ and persecutions which Hr. Hoover and Doak, proposed are in order to “Pro- tect. the social and political structure of Ameri- ” As to just what sort of “civil- means, the bayonets and machine ed quite clearly at the opening of It interesting to note that Doak’s state- ment is fully in accord with the black “Michigan Bill No. 520.” It is important to point out to the masses that despite the fact that the Com- mittee for the Defense of the Foreign Born were victorious in forcing the federal court to reject its bill, yet it is quite clear that the contents of this same bill will be proposed to Congress as a federal bill. No one need to be misled, that be- cause the federal court of Michigan state de- clared the bill unconstitutional, therefore we have passed the danger mark. On the contrary, our struggle must now assume a nation-wide character. The contents of the “Michigan Bill” has practically been proposed directly by Presi- dent Hoover in his yearly message, But Doak is not satisfied by just persecuting the foreign born. He goes a step further. He thinks that the activities of the organizations fighting for the protection of the foreign born should be limited (read—forbidden). “Because,” 1es, “the organizations, by persistent ganda, are hampering the deportation of alien enemies of the country.” This Ku-Klux Klanist has the audacity to say further on: “Even in cases where guilt was clearly shown, ts of this department were being handi- Poor soul! Had this been so, perhaps it would be possible for the corporation lawyer, Mr. Doak, to prove on what legal grounds the laborer, Yokinen, whom he calls “an enemy of the coun- the Fight A try,” was arrested and is being held for depor- tation? But it is of no avail We know very well that this is not a question of constitutional rights. We know that the attack on the foreign born serves the same purpose as that which the Tzar Nickolai persecuted Jews in Russia. We know that the recommendation of Mr. Doak to preserve the right of the government to cancel citizenship only aims to frighten the millions of naturalized citizens and detract their attention from the struggle for unemployment insurance. According to the Bureau of Statistics in Wash- ington, there were 13,366,407 foreign born in the year 1930 in the United States. Of this number there are about 9,000,000 work- era. Does Mr. Doak really believe that he will succeed in terrorizing all these millions of for- eign born without any resistance on their part? Does he really believe that he can check this struggle of the Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born and he will be left unhampered in his deportation plans? We can assure every Doak and the Hke that not only will we not | limit ourselves to our activities, but we will ad- vance such a mighty struggle against persecu- | tion of the foreign born that they will first re- alize what “hampering” really means. ‘The American working masses are very apt pupils in this crisis. They are rapidly realizing that this reactionary wave against the foreign born goes parallel with the increased lynching campaigns of the Negro workers. The American v ers are realizing that with this terror wave against the foreign born and Negro workers, strides the wage-cut, unemployment, hunger and homelessness, persecution and jail for the entire working class. The American worker is rapidly learning that all the dark powers in this country that are fighting tooth and nail against unem- ployment relief, are the important leaders in the attack on the living standard of the American working class in general and persecute the for- eign born in particular. President Hoover and Secretary of Labor Doak haye shown in their report to Congress that all recommendations and bills against the foreign | born, proposed by the different personages and patriotic fascist organizations, has now become @ general government issue. Hoover’s and Doak’s recommendations were formulated by the “Coalition of Patriotic Societies” only two weeks ago and have been accepted on the 25th of No- vember in Washington, D. C. This is what the resolution formulated: () To strengthen the deportation laws. (2) To exclude foreign-born workers from em- ployment. (3) To register foreign-born workers. (4) To lengthen the time and make it more difficult for one to become a citizen of the United States. (5) That the President of the United States gets the fullest authority to deport anyone who will not be considered in accord with “100 per cent Americanism.” Similar. resolutions were adopted before the opening of Congress by the “United Patriotic” organizations and other or- ganizations hostile to the working class, Can anyone find one single word in the above mentioned facts that were lacking in Doak’s rec- ommendations and in Hoover's few masqued words in his message to Congress? Doak is practically repeating every word of the resolu- tions adopted by the “Coalition” and even elab- orated upon Hoover’s speech. It is quite clear that we have a united front of all reactionary and working hostile forces to deal with now. It is quite evident that Fish, Doak, Hoover and the whole paraphernalia was in back of the resolutions of the patriotic or- ganizations. But against this united front of the working people in general, and the foreign born in particular, the Committee for the Pro- tection of the Foreign Born will unite all the’ working citizens and non-citizens, Americans and foreign born, white and colored, and united we will shater the chains of slavery that the gov- ernment is forging for the foreign born. It is the duty of every radical and progressive organization that is in any way at all connected with this righteous struggle which the foreign- born worker is conducting, should Join the Com- mittee for the Defense of the Foreign Born. Every organization in every city of the United States should put this issue of the defense of the foreign born to the forefront. The slogan of every organization, regardless of its political or social views, should be: Down with the persecuting discriminations and deportation of the foreign born! Long live the solidarity of the American work- ing class, white end Negro, native and foreign born! The Socialist Leaders Are Ready to Support Hitler AluW YORK.—Herr Hitler, leader of the German fascists, in a letter dated Dec. 15, to Brue- ning, head of the German government, denies that the fascists are bandits but that they seek to rebuild German capitalism even by more drastic decrees than Bruening issued. “The na- tion does not care how bulky the emergency de- erees are, how long a time it took to work them out,” so long as capitalism is preserved, said Hit- ler. ‘The 40-page letter was a rehash of Hitler's usual demagogic speeches. The most peculiar feature of the letter was Hitler's appeal to “dem- ocracy” to carry out his fascist program of a bloody dictatorship. By this means he hopes to win more of the masses behind his party. Hit- ler said the whole program of the Bruening government was an “illusion.” He beat the war drums against France, failing to mention the fact that behind the. scenes he. sent emissaries to French imperialism for a united front against the revolutionary working class, For Attack On Communists. At the very beginning of his letter Hitler ap- peals to Bruening to make a joint attack against the “millions of Communists” planning the over- throw of German eapitalism. Nowhere in his letter does Hitler say a word against the social ists, but he threatens a murderous attack by bis gunmen against the Communists. Hitler points out that Germany is “a nation para lyzed by revolutionary convulsion,” and that a strong fascist dictatership is. necessary»in an at tempt to save German capitalism’ from “the fate of Russié.” Hitler O. K’s MacDonald. Hitler approvingly points to Ramsay MacDon- cr sy ee Oe a A AO A RE ald, the British socialist, who dissolved parlia~ ment and took the road to fascism, Hitler's latest letter will gain him greater support from the socialists, and though it is purported to be directed against Bruening’s policy, it does not interfere with Hitler’s nego- tiations for a coalition government with Brue- ning, supported by the socialists. This type of fascist government would receive socialist sup- port, as shown by recent utterances of the so- cialist newspapers, ‘The official organ of the German social demo- cratic (socialist) party, the “Vorwaerts,” pub- lished @ leading article recently which indicates the lines along which the social democratic lead- ers intend to capitulate to Hitler. The article declares that it is of great importance whether the fascists take over power alone or with allies, and in the latter case it will be of great im- portance who these allies are and how power is divic The “Vorwaerts” thinks that the fas- cists in power would not be so bad after all if only they are kept out of the Relchswehr Min- istry, the Retch’s Ministry of thé Interior and the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. It writes: “If fascism comes to power along constitn- tonal lines, then the question will be raised whether jf will respect the constitutional rights of the opposition, or whether it will attempt to destroy them in order to maintain its post tion. Every government must present itself to the electorate again after a passage of fonr. years at the utmost. If there were any guar- antee that the fascists would recognize the democratic rules by which they came to power after they came to power, then all of us would Dail = Yorker’ Party US.A. of Manhattan and Bronx, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: New York City, By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1;. excepting: Borou; Foreign: one year, $8; six months, $4.60, cold or hungry this year.”— . ¥. Times editorial. g ain st th e OLD CAPITALIST PILL DOCTOR, “THIS OUGHT TO FIX YOU UP FOR A YEAR. $77.89 ROVER, Pew WORKERS FAMUN FOR IOSZ The Revolutionary Unions in the Pittsburgh District By CARL PRICE. fact that in the Pittsburgh District a great deal of mass work is being carried on, that many new problems are being faced practically in this district, that many difficulties, due to the problems of growth are encountered in the work in the revolutionary unions, makes it necessary for the entire Party to study the work of the unions in this district. I. Party and Union Relations. The District Bureau of the Pittsburgh District has discussed at some length, the question of Party-union relations, and is issuing a document giving the line of the Party on this question. The work of the Party in the National Miners’ Union and the Metal Workers’ Industrial League has shown that the work of the Party in ‘the unions has faced serious shortcomings and difficulties, especially with regard to coordination of the work. The main problems are: i a. The Party has not sufficiently been mob- ilized for the building of the unions. The Party is as yet still too loose in its organization, due to the newness of the Party. The Party mem- By TOM BARTER ING up and down the streets of Moscow, Kharkhov, Leningrad or any other city of the Soviet Union, one is immediately impressed by the fact that the status of the women here is much different than what it is in the United States'of America or any other capitalist country, This is evident not from the way they dress, because women as well as men in the Soviet Union do not dress in “style” yet, but it is evi- dent from the things they do. If you pass by a building under construction you see women laying bricks, plastering walls and handling electric wires. If you go into one of the machine shops you see women running lathes, planers, milling machines, etc., not as helpers but as full-fledged mechanics. If you mount a trolley car or a motor bus the one that collects 10 kopeeks fare is a woman. In short, you find them working on every one of the skilled jobs which in America we are used to think that only men can do. Not only in industries do you find women occupying key positions, but also in politics. ‘You find them in some of the most important . posts of the government and the Communist Party, in the administration of the Co-opera- tives and the Trade Unions; you also find women in every branch of the Red Army, not as pri- vate secretaries and stenographers, as is the case in America and in the rest of the capitalist countries, but as leaders of departments. In the Soviet Union the historical slave of the Kitchen and the washtub has become a free in- dividual. Free and equal to man in every ac- tivity of life, not as a competitor as it is in the capitalist countries but as a comrade in the struggle to build Socialism, to build a better fu- ture for all. F Sure enough in America women also work in sooner see them in power today than tomor- row.” In other words, the social democratic leaders are preparing the path for a “toleration” of Hitler should Hitler and his friends agree to share power, say, with Bruening, in the first stage of their entry into the government. Whether Hitler would be prepared to, tolerate the social democrats after having dropped Brue- ning overboard is 2 horse of « different color. ‘The “Rote Fahne”, writes, referring to the “Vorwaerts” article, that in cace of s Bruentng- Hitler coalition German capitalism will not cease to utilize the assistance reridered by the social democracy. For a time'it might even maintain itself with the assistance of both Hitler and the social democrats. ‘The development of the social democratic leaders from a “toleration” of Hitler to open renegacy would in all probability pro- esed more quickly m Germany than had been the cam dele oe 4 Be 2h ne bership—the Section Committees and the units have not sufficiently translated into practice, the line of the Party, that the Party must consider the union work its most important field of work, must build itself through the work in the unions and the unemployed work. : b. The work is not coordinated enough in the Party committees. Party |members who are union organizers are still not working enough through the Section Committees and units, not taking up sufficiently on their order of business the tasks of the unions. ¢. Not enough planned work. The Section Committee of the Party, the units, fractions, should plan systematized work more from week to week, helping the union fractions to sys- tematize an¢ better organize their work and also to give more day to day political guidance. However, the main danger in Party-union re- lations at the present time is the underestima- tion on the part of the Party membership of the role of the Party. For example, in the Central Pensylvania Section, where the union has some 2,500 members, there are only 50 or 60 members The Status of Women in the Soviet Union and in America industries, there is no less than 9,000,000 of them, but this does not mean freedom to them. On the contrary, they remain slaves to the kitchen, the washtub and the scrubbing brush, and in addition become slaves to the boss. Going into the factory for a woman in America means doing two days’ work in one. A typical example of the slave conditions of working women in America is to be found in the’ textile industry of Passaic, N, J. Women in those mills are now working 12 hours a day and when they get through with that they have their housework accumulated waiting for them. This is not the worst. In the same center women are working nights and when they get home in the morning they have to prepare breakfast for their husbands who work day time, they also have to wash, dress and feed the children and send them to school. It will be 9 or 10 o'clock before they can try to rest, but at that hour the street noise makes it impos- sible. At three o'clock the children come back from school hungry, and then she also must start to prepare supper and get ready to go back to work again. During the week-end they do the heavy washing. Besides all this, and especially during this period of unemployment, in many cases women are compelled to give their body to the boss or foreman in order to keep their jobs.- Numerous cases of this kind were found and exposed dur- ing the Passaic textile strike of 1926. The writer was present at a meeting of striking dressmakers in New York City and heard a young girl relate the following: 9 “Our boss changes the whole crew almost every week. If among the old workers he sees a pretty girl he gives her a break. He wants her to stay in order to take advantage of her. It is hard as hell to work in that place and remain decent.” This is the life of working women in the Amer- ican factories; two days of work in one, slavery and degradation of all descriptions, The Ne- groes and the foreign-born women are the ones that suffer most of this double exploitation and slavery, and all this they do in competition with the men because the bosses have not drawn the women into industries for the purpose of eman- cipating them, but to make them take the place of men for less pay.! The bosses find in women and young workers a source of cheap labor to throw it into competition with men and thereby cut the wages of the entire working class. Here in the’ Soviet Union the revolution has done away with this competition. Women do not take the place of men for Jess pay and as a result of it men do not resent nor resist the coming of women into the skilled posts of in- dustry and public life, Furthermore the Soyiet Government has created the institutions neves~ sary to free the women from the drudgery of Mousepork here je-being done in fnotaries on of the Party in the mine fields there. In North< ern |West Virginia (excluding the Panhandle Section) where several thousand have recently joined the union, only one Party unit exists. In Western Pennsylvania, there are some 3,000 actually paying dues (including exempt stamps) and several thousand more in the union, and the Party has only a few hundred members. The expression “the Party is interfering with the union work” growing out of a conflict of union and Party meetings, or other lack of co- ordination, in the union and Party work, can on occasion be heard in the field. At a time when the socialist party is busy attempting to establish its branches in every mining and steel town, when the socialist party is giving out tons of literature, together with relief, it gives to the miners, such opportunistic expressions should be combatted strongly, especially by the Party membefts who are leading the union work. In the Party, because of its newness, we have strong evidences of white chauvinism. We have in the Party unclarity on the demagogy of Pin- chot in some sections of the Party and unclarity as to the role of the Party (for example in the election campaign). We have in Central Penn- sylvania, actually one local union of the N. M. U. controlled by the socialist elements. We have the activity of the U.M.W.A. and the social- fascist elements which are put forward by the bosses as their main weapon. In such a situa- tion, the Party District, Sections, and units, must become more than ever before, the driving force in the union work. It is necessary for every Party member who is a union organizer to feel that when he is in the field, he is the representative of the Party as well as the union. He must work more through the Section Committees and the units of the Party—through his individual efforts, bring the best elements of the union inte the Party, and to guide the work of. the Party in the field, as well as the union work. The District Bureau and District Secretariat must give more ideological clarity to the Party members on the role of the Party in the trade unions. The building of fractions in all local unions and groups now becomes an actual neces- sity for the further progress of the union and the Party. The Party must increasingly become the driving force for the building of the unions and through the work in building the unions, also the Party must be more quickly built and estab- lished and organizational looseness eliminated. The establishment of a District Fraction under the guidance of the District Bureau is an im- portant task, which if not carried out will mean that the Party will have great difficulty in guid- ing the work in the mining and steel towns. At the present time in the Pittsburgh District, the chief danger is the union—Party relations is not the danger of the Party “choking” the union, but the chief shortcoming is the fact that the Party has not exerted itself as the driving force to give guidance, direction, and control to the union work, at the same time, of course, allowing for’ the independent existence of the unions, There is a definite underestimation in the District of the role of the Party in the trade- union field. ( ‘ (To Be Continued.) @ mass scale the same as any other kind of work: Every factory has its kitchen and dining room, producing and serving food in great quan- tities, better in quality and more economically than any home kitchen can produce it. The kitchen of the Micoyana Shoe Factory of Rostov serves 29,000 meals a day. In these dining rooms all the adult members of the fam- ily eat, the children ‘eat in school and the home kitchen is disappearing. The infants are taken care of in the nurseries, the Jaundry does the’ washing and the woman is freed from house- work. Home for her is not another factory, but. @ place to rest. 3 | This great contrast must be brought to the Attention of the working women of America and’ the rest of the capitalist, countries, Tt must be explained to them in detail and on the basis of it urged to organize in the revolutionary unions and in the Communist Party and struggle to-” gether with the men for the overthrow of the. capitalist system and for a Soviet system—the | if you like. It casts only. 25 cents, Not a Happy Ending By Jones —. Beg Your Pardon a From Cleveland we ate informed that the Ohio District ‘of the Labor Sports Union “is at’ Present under charge of a girl, and ‘objects “te” ‘wearing long pants.’ Please make the corréc=? tion.” Fine! We won't insist of. pants; Jong or short; under the circumstances: Further, -we are glat* to-hear that’ in Obio the L.S.U. ds demanding free use of the public schools and sport. facilities for young workers, and trying to organize sportse for the unemployed. : x Still-more, Cleveland will be the scene on Deo, 25, 26 and 27 of the.National Conference of the Labor Sports: Uni and. the pantlass” Districts Sacz WeAIs: body whov qualifies undey- the term-of “flat<chosted ‘skeptics -of the Party®: to wake up to the use of sports in the revoltte2 tionary movement. And she's right, by: gum! * Oh,’ yes, and ‘New Yorkers ‘who ‘walit to enjoy * Soecer games and help the Labor Sports’ Union to finance” its National’ Conferencé, should hie themselves by the Broadway trains ov the Sev- | enth Ave. line to Dyckmati St., then two-blocks north to the Dyekman’ Oval, next, Sunday, Dec. ‘ 20, where from 11 a.m. to late afternoon a Sports Carniyal will be. put, on, ,with six Prize,soccer teams matched. Go any hour and stay, all day ere It seems that our first report from Boston about the funeral of “General D. Pression” was neither authoritative nor, complete. ‘ ‘From. later reports, we learn that’the whole affair was a washout. It was: arranged. iby the Boston department: stores, who wanted to cheer up Christmas shoppers with the chorus ‘girls singing “Happy Days Are Here Again.’ wo But- they: weren't either ‘here or again: It leaked out that’ just when the” coffin,” labeled “General D. Pression” was to be pushed into the harbor, loaded with rocks to insure sinking, the bottom dropped out of the coffin muchas! the bottom dropped out of the stock market the-same day, and. the darned: coffin refused: to sink” So “General D. Pression” floatéd’ defiantly on the face of the waters until pushed out of sight of Mayor Curley by main (strength and awkward- ness. The mayor, you know, Joaned the prestige of his presence to the department ‘store’ medi- cine men. : aye But, alas, the taxi chaufteur’who drove ‘him to the funeral, after the celebration was over and “prosperity: restored,” drové* back to”His gifage fi where the boss told him: “Y6t'te fired!” Wheree upon he sat down and wrote ‘to the mayor; “Say, we buried the wrong guy!” ~ eet Touching on Sacred ~ Things eis, The crocodile scratched his ear reflectively, We were perusing 2 letter from: Youngstown, a steel center and concentration point if-we recall aright. Yet one, so we were informed, whera there is a great weakness on all sides—and a big state-wide conference for the Mooney~ Harlan-Scottsboro Defense was’ coming off. Sa ran the letter, and then continued: “Four days ‘before the conference this com- rade left .for Chicago, and’ without’ riécessity took along another comrade. When dsking for permission from one’ of thé Bnreaf mem- bers, he claimed that it’ was" imperative for him to go to Chicago "becatse he had Tun out of toothpaste. I ask, therefore, is Chicago toothpaste any better. than Youngstown’s? And also is Chicago ‘toothpaste more important Lise making preparations for the ‘Confer- ence?” ‘ The crocodile, not being. an” expert’ in ‘tooth- paste, had to refer ‘this to Unfinished Business, but remarked, ‘We respectfully request 'the‘com- rade who. goes to: Chicage after his” toothpaste that, on hsi return to. Youngstown, he not ‘forget his toothbrush.” e ‘Sq MD Then he went on: “You know,-Sparks; these are grounds on which angels fear to tread, and _ thus a mere crocodile. must “be confoundedly careful, Take those sacred Y. C. L. unit meet- ings in New York. We tried to get a bit of flexibility to allow those boys and girls who want ‘to, study in. the Workers School, time to do so. But.the answer was ‘Nix’, ,. Unit meetings are sacred... . Under, no -circumstances...” ete, ~ X. “Well, now what's happened? Nothing less important than a dance. “And for THAT, all unit meetings postponed, all members mobilized —compulsory attendance—to dance! There being no issues more burning to the. timid. proletariat in this. Third Period, than. how-to-swing = gal over the left hip in Argentine style... 9 | “Under ‘the fron discipline “of “the'*Marxian Jeadership, the revolutionary youtir presented themselves ‘in battle array, ré@dy, always ready, to revolute fo the strains of ‘Call ‘Me Sweet- heart’—at the crucial hour of 8 <elght). And the music’ showed up-at 11 (eleveny.-“And the unshakable clique spirit: of ‘this: blessed’ metro Polis so stuck in the gizzards: of the members that they left. the guests) of the evening—who were to be charmed by the delights’ of the eve- ning into the army of proletarian ‘fighters, stand "around in the offing with nopilot:to take ‘em into port. i Me SEG eG r “But what'can a poor crocodile do against a bureaucracy which has all the agility and the tough: hide of a rhino." Remenwber that letter ‘we got from Brooklyn? It hit the mark when dt said:—'The Y.C.Lers read. your criticism, laugh, think it’s a bully good joke--and then.go right on doing the same things over again’ “What about that unit we miéritioned oncé as _- @ parade ground of a Brigadier? The Unit votedy heavily, after three hours debate, to endorse the Crocodile's ‘criticism, and elected a Committee of, Three ,tovexpress. the Unit's appreciation of our benevolent ifitervention. ‘Three unit funce tionaries were elected, Strong, Beeder * ford, the latter who works not twenty steps at from our little den hereion this same floor. “And that was! Q; back twovard! a half ago! And have we heard a yeep out of Committee?'» WE HAVE NOT! They are ‘busy.’ Busy doing what: ? Certainly not ca! out the instructidns~of ‘the rank and further proof were necded that they a always ‘cratii this ow,uld answer. They are busy’ to obey tho. discipline of the mem! | | } we