The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 25, 1931, Page 4

Published by the Compr th St, New York City, N. Y¥ Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 Hast 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Page Four th felephone ALgonquin 4-7956: ly Publishing Co., Inc. daily except Sunday, at 60 Hast Cable “DAIWOLKK.” Cental Orford Party Recruiting Drive | January 11 - March 18, 1932 DIRECTIVES ON THE RECRUITING DRIVE I, INTRODUCTION. Central Committee of our Party, consid- ering the sharpening offensive of the capi- {attacks upon the eraployed and unem- oyed, growing political reaction and war dan- ver), and the rising resistance of the workers, and analyzing the results of the unemployed n the National Hunger March to on December ‘7th, decided to n and intensify the campaign against yment, to mobilize and organize wide of unemployed and employed workers fight for unemployment insurance st wages and immediate relief, to link up the paign with the employed workers in the hops and factories in the struggle against wage cuts, speed-up, lay-offs, part-time work, has been the weakest phase of our un ed and trade union work in general. Central Committee has to connect all npaigns more firmly with the campaign the imperfalist war on the Chi d the danger of war on the Soviet in road in the mobilization of in the struggle against hte y thousands of new members from the factories, mines and mills, active workers ng the unemployed and active workers in The recent events have definitely ions the increased radicalization the na is now our task to ize this 1 into political consciousness and best elements into our Party. ign will on the one hand ly and successfully to carry s of the Party and on the g in new fresh blood from will intensify help more ener; ad nes. by bring: and factories, the 1 ese carp For the struggle against the eco- nomic and political offensive of the capit s and their government. Vor the struggle against the danger ef war on the Soviet Union. ‘Thousands of new members into e¢ Communist Party. In the course of this campaign special atten- tion must be given to the building of the revo- | | lutionary unions, to intensifying the struggle in the A. F. L. and aid in building revolutionary oppositions, and the activization of the Party membership in the building of unemployed com- mittees and councils. The recruiting campaign must particularly re- volve around the winning of new members in the areas where strike struggles took place (Pittsburgh, Ohio, Lawrence, Paterson, Allen- town, Tampa, West Virginia) and in sections in the industries in which strikes are being pre- pared or maturing (Kentucky, Anthracite) and where possibilities for strike struggles are de- veloping, concentrating on basic industries and most important factories. The recruiting drive must serve to intensify the development of strike struggles. The line of the 13th Plenum of the Central Commitee must govern the recruiting The Plenum stated: ne building of the Party must become an integr: art of the preparation and leadership of r struggles. The realization of the slogan af b the Party in mass struggles, means par- ticularly strengthening the mass organizations of the Party in the heavy industries and big factories and in the districts in which these industries are located.” his ...npaigy must not be detached from the current campaigns cf the Party, but. we must cash in organizationally on the results of the actions carried through by the Party for the strengthening of the campaigns under way, and to establish recruiting as. a systematic daily work of our Party. The Central Committee. declares that, through the recruiting of the most active revolutionary workers from the shops and trade. unions and from among the unemployed, we will advance the Bolshevization process of our Party, by the establishment of closer bonds between the Party and the masses of workers in the shops, and get new fresh forces for the development. of new leading cadres for the mass struggles. In our everyday activities we must carry on an intensive campaign to expose the role of the Socialist Party and other social fascist. groups, the role of the labor bureaucracy in the A. F. L., of the basis of every-day experiences and-make special efforts to draw in honest workers still remaining in the ranks of the Socialist Party into the party of the working class, the Com- munist Party. (To be continued) ‘INANCIAL AND ECONOMIC POLICY OF THE SOVIET UNION (Conclusion) Fourth question: Who bears the cost of the acclal policy? Answer: With us all workérs come under the social insurance, the contributions to which are paid entirely by the undertakings in which they are employed. The worker himself does not pay anything. The contributions to social insurance are not deducted from the workers’ wages, but they are paid by the employers as an addition to the wages. The total cost of State social in- surance for the working class amounts this year to nearly 2,000 million roubles. In the year 1930 it amounted to 1,400 million roubles. It is in- creasing from year to year. Under this insur- ance the worker receives full pay in case of ill- ness, and a pension in case of incapacity. The benefit paid to women before and after con- | finement is very generous. In addition to this social insurance, we have the State insurance of permanent invalids, aged people, and people who are chronically incapacitated for work. They receive pensions at the cost of the State. Comrade Grinko then gave detailed figures regardine the number of children’s homes, homes weifs and strays and similar institutions scial welfare provision by the State is now being extended to the village poor. We have elrcxdy done a rood deal in this sphere, never- theless we consider what we have done to be still insufficint and are increasing our expendi- ture in.this sphere from year to year. Fiith Question: Why does the Soviet Govern- met place orders with the capitalist countries? Answer: We purchase from abroad those ma- chines which we are not yet able to produce our- felves. We say quite openly to the working class of the v e world, that we very often export those things which we could consume ourselves, that we limit our requirements, but the purpose | of all this is to receive from abroad as quickly s possible the things.we need for socialist con- iction. We are building up our Soviet Union not as a national State, but as a stronghold yhich shall not only withstand the attacks of the capitalist world but shall by its existence and its increasing strength constitute a counter poie to the capitalist world. Today even our eneniies in the bourgeois camp have to recog- nize—in fact the Vienna social democrat Otto Bauer was compelled to admit in an article pub- Jished in September, that our national economy is developing rapidly and that we have no un- employment. These facts serve to strengthen | | Yorkers! Join the Party of. Your Class! P. O, Box 87 Station D. New York City. UY cecessececeensecrereeees BtAte ssvsereeene Mail this to tMe Oéitfal Office, Comminist f ey, 4 Com te in D, Mew Dee 4 % the working class on the other side of the frontiers. At a time when there is a great crisis and unemployment in the capitalist countries, the fact that the number of workers in the So- | viet Union has increased this year by 3,800,000 is bound to exert a great influence on the work- ers in the capitalist countries. In face of the 4% million unemployed in Germany and the 10 million unemployed in the United States, the results of our system show the working masses a way into the future. The orders we place abroad accelerate by the importation of machines the building up of socialism in our country, and | this also is of extreme importance from the point of view of the labor movement in the capitalist countries: > Sixth Question: Will not production in the Soviet Union so develop that exports from the Soviet Union will deal a deadly blow to the in- dustry of all other countries? Answer: This question is closely connected with the notorious campaign against alleged Soviet dumping. I would first call your atten- tion t> the fact that at present we occupy a rela~ tively very small place in world economy. Our exports do not amount to more than 2 to 3 per cent of the world’s exports. In regard to one or two articles, especially naphtha and fimber, we are, it is true, an important exporting coun- try, but only in this narrow sphere. Secondly, I wish to say that we have an inexhaustible home market. We can and must raise our coun- try to a far higher cultural level. We have to build dwelling-houses for millions and millions | of our working population; we must provide them with clothing, educate them, cover the | whole country with a network of electric power works, bring electricity into the village, and build roads and railways. Our population is increas- ing very rapidly. With us there is a tremendous demand for goods. In this situation we have neither the inclination nor the negessity to think of flooding the other world with our exports. We export as much as we have to export in order to import the machines which we are not yet _able to produce ourselves. We are carrying on planned economy. If tomorrow it should turn out that we have a surplus of certain products, then we are in a position immediately to re- strict production in this sphere and to switch over to another sphere. We are a proletarian State, and if we should have a surplus of pro- ducts there is no reason whatever why we should go on working 7 hours a day; we can work 6 or 5 hours a day. ‘There would be quite another situation if alongside of us there existed another proletarian State. In this case one can easily imagine a planned division of labor and products between these two States. It is not our task to destroy the industry of other countries, but to pay at- tention to the rapid extension of our own indus- try. This point of view is decisive for our exports and imports. We export as much as we are obliged to export to seoure our necessary im- ports. And in so doing we confer more benefit on the capitalist States than we them. We export raw materials, bet them orders mainty for machines, try is not threatened by the export of our materials; they would have far greater unem-~- ployment if they did not have trade relations with us The statements of Comrade Grinko evoked jJoud applause from all the delegates present. A German social democratic worker, a worker fhe Pélidh delegation, and a member ef the Canadian delegation expressed te = i j Daily,. ot By mafl everywhere Manliattam and Bronx, SURSCRIPTION RATES: ~ One year, New York City. Foreign: $6;.six months, $3; two months, $1; one year, excepting Boroughs $8; six months, $4.50, In the Workers’ Fatherland, Upward —-In Ca nitalist Countries, Downward —By GROPPER, Directives to PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 23.—Complete direc- tives on how to organize the Kentucky miners for conducting and winning the coal strike which begins on January Ist, has been issued by National Office af the National Miners’ Union here. The statement of the N. M. U. follows: () ‘The recent activity of the N. M. U. re- sulted in a distriet convention in Kentticky. 'The convention preparations were based on the masses of miners. This made.it possible to hold @ Mass convention in spite of the great terror- ism of the coal operators and the government. ‘The convention. definitely established the N. M. U. as a factor in the life of the Kentucky miners. Even the enemies of the miners are forced to admit this fact. Although the convention was @ great success, there were several serious short- comings. One of the greatest shortcomings was complete absence of the Negro miners in spite of the fact that the Negroes constitute 18 per cert of the mining population. (2) The convention made a correct estimate of the readiness of the miners to struggle against starvation and terror and in line with this formulated demands, set the strike date and developed program of action. In order to carry out the decisions of the convention and to lay the basis for a successful strike, the following are the main tasks of the N. M. U. Immediate Practical Tasks, (D) The chief aim of the strike is to win the demands formulated by the convention, to estab- lish the right of the miners to organize, to strike, to picket, to defend themselves against the company thugs and other armed forces, to fight for the interests of the unemployed, espe- cially for unemployment insurance. With this goes building of a mass N. M. U., development of broad mine committees, etc. At the same time assistance must be given to build up the Workers International Relief and the Interna- tional Labor Defense into mass organizations by their development of a mass campaign for re- lief and the defense of the miners. (2) ‘These tasks can be fulfilled only if prior to the strike we develop a whole series of mass meetings, mass demonstrations and marches in spite of the terror. The mass meetings, demon- strations and marches must be organized pur- posely and consciously, well prepared, in order to involve the masses in action, to inform them of the purpose of the strike, to break through the terror where it is most severe, to elect, com- mittees to prepare the strike. In all of these activities the women, the youth and children must be involved. It is of a basic importance to involve the Negro miners in all the activities by marches of the white miners into the Negro sections in order to break extreme terror against the Negroes and by these actions to defend the Negro miners -against the onslaught of the armed forces.- All of these measures must be based on the unity of the employed and unem- ployed miners. (3) The starting point of the strike is ‘in Kentucky. Therefore, all forces must be con- centrated to make the strike effective in Ken- ‘The development of the strike in Ken- will lay the basis for the spreading of the er southern coal fields. To lay the @ rapid spreading of the strike it is necessary immediately to establish rank and file connections with the miners in these fields. In workers on the basis of struggle against their own wage cut and on the basis of solidarity with the striking miners. (No transportation of scab coal) @ Relief will play 2 decisive role in the otfike. Beside the national campaign for re- set up at and smafl called in order to organ- involve them in the relief work. method of distributing relief is the establishment of soup kitchens in every mining Each local union shall set up special ittees to prepare this work and shall co- with the Workers International Relief. (5) Each local union is to set up special committee to organize defense corps to defend the mass meetings, demonstrations, picket lines, soup kitchens, union headquarters, speakers, and especially Negro miners. Special efforts must be made to involve ex-service men in this phase of the work, with the establishment of militant, discipline. While ‘building defense corps, & L. D, defense committees must be set. up to be in charge of legal defense of the ar- rested miners, (6) Every phase of the strike preparations must be based on the principle of the united front policy and tactics by concretely uniting employed and unemployed, Negro and white, men and women and by involying other sections of the working class and also farmers and small business men for the support of the strike. The N. M. U. Yocals must take the initiative to in- volve, beside the members of the N. M. U., the unorganized miners, members of the U. M. W. A. and the I. W. W., where these organizations have membership, into strike preparation ma- chinery, on the basis of the program of the last convention. Special efforts must be made to involve the Negro miners into leading positions Warning Against A Spy James Elmer Carr (also known as J. P. Rhodes and Paul Reese ,.lately of McKeesport, Pa., whose photograph appears herewith, has been exposed by the Communist Party as a dangerous spy, who moves around from city to city under various names and tries to get inside information on dif- |, ferent working class organizations. ‘The photograph has been taken some time ago. Now he wears a short mustache (as marked on the photograph and looks much older. He is about 36 years of age, apparently American, though he speaks also Spanish; height, 5 feet 10 inches; weight, about 175 pounds; complexion, light; eyes, watery grey; hair, blond, combed t sraight back; has one gold tooth in the back of his mouth, on the left side. He walks in a military fashion, having had military training; talks very politely and using big words, due to high school and perhaps col- lege education; habitually bites his upper lip, and holds his hand on his chin while listening to @ lecture or speech, He wears overalls and overdoes in his efforts to act as a worker; had all sorts of winter and summer clothes in his rooms, also typewriter, files, etc., like s regular office man. Pretends to be an electrician. Conclusive evidence has been obtained proving that he is a spy of the higher order, and all workers and workers organizations must, beware of him in every part of the U.S.A. and, perhaps, also in Latin American countries, as he speeks some Spanish and is known to have been there some yoars ago. the Kentucky Rank and File Miners on How to Organize and Conduct the Strike of every phase of strike mathinery. (1) The entire preparation of the strike must result in the strengthening of the union poli- tically and organizationally. It must be under- stood that the N. M. U. is the backbone of the strike and the unemployed movement as weil as of the whole striké machinery. The imme- diate task of the union is to popularize the strike demands, to expose the campaign of the coal operators and the government and to take initiative to build the united front movement, to check up the work of various strike prepara- tion apparatus. A mass campaign must be de- veloped to recruit new members in the union. by activizing every member of the union. Organization of the Strike Machinery. (1) On the date of the strike a mass meeting must be held in every mine and broad rank and file strike committee elected. The strike preparation committees shall prepare the list of the most active miners to be electéd on the local strike committee. The local strike com- mittee must immediately undertake to register every striker and assign them to do special work such as relief, defense, picketing education, etc. The necessity of a real discipline must be em- phasized at all meetings and must be expressed in the active work of all strikers. (2). The local strike committee shall take charge of all committees established in the course of strike preparation, such as defense committee, relief committee, etc. strengthen these committees ar” see to it that they func- tion properly. ‘The local strike umittee is to establish Women’s Committee, Negro Commit- tee and the Youth Committee to carry on the work among these categories of the vorkers. The entire work must be condu-'-d by the Buro of the stri> committee which shall consist of the chairman, secretary and the heads of various committees. _ (3) The first task in the strike is to con- solidate and to spread the strike in the Ken- tucky field. It is the task of each strike com- mittee to give necessary help to the mines where the help is necessary. (4) Picket lines must be organized in front of every mine involying men, women and children, and especially Negroes. To strengthen the con- nections with the railroad workers we shall or- ganize picketing at the railroad stations and yards. Mass marches and demonstrations of the strikers and unemployed must be organized throughout the strike area. (5) The locel strike committees shall see to it that dances, affairs, sports and other social activities are organized regularly. The Negro workers must be involved in all of these social affairs. Negro workers must be brought into the leadership of the strike committees. (6) The local strike committee shall elect permanent representatives to the Central Strike Committee and to the respective Section Strike Committees, (1) AS soon as the strike begins each local strike committee shall send a detailed report to the Central Strike Committee. Permanent sys- tem of courier must be established to carry out special directives. In each mine a system of couriers shall be established. . Presentation of Demands to Coal Operators. (1) The demands adopted by the union con- vention must be presented by the strike com- mittee and the N. M. U. immediately to the coal operators. In the letter to the coal operators attached to the demands the following demands must be emphasized: (a) wage scale, (b) recog- nition of the N. M. U. and the mine committee, (c) union checkweighmen, (d) re-employment of all blacklisted miners, (e) withdrawal of all armed forces from the field and the withdrawal of charges against the arrested miners, (f) im- mediate relief for the unemployed. Letter must also emphasize that there shall be no discrim- imation against the Negro miners in any form specifying concretely the forms of discrimina- tion to be eliminated. These will be indi further. Day for negotiations must be to the coal operators. : Spreading the Strike. (D) The main strategy after the strike starts must be to consolidate spread the strike in Kentucky end on this besis to apread the strike = By JORGE Thrift In Lapland “Punkin Center, Lapland (where Arkansas laps over into Oklahoma), “We're all for Hoover over here. We are 100 per cent Americans. We believe in Hooverizing. Our Thrift Club is in a sound condition, Ned Blevins is president, but as he is absent on ace count of temporary insanity, Bill Soapstone ts acting president, “There may be others that have excelled us in thrift, but we do our best. We wear -kne@ pants to save fabric. I use the word fabric pure Posely, for our clothing is no longer made of cloth, but of gunny sacks. We have discovered that we can be quite happy dressed in nice, cleat gunny sack pants that Jeave our lower legs exe posed to view and frost, “The women folks, a shade more fastidious, are decorating themselves with handsome dresses made of sugar sacks, which may be purchase® for a trifle at the splendid second-hand store at the county seat. It is a great advantage to be able to buy the sugar sacks without having to buy the sugar. “Necessity is the mother of invention, you know. The greater the necessity, the greater the invention. I wish you could see one of our pep meetings. Those knee pants, shoes without heel or toe, or sole for that matter. Shirts without | sleeves and hats without brims. Alice Hughes would not have to go to the Soviet Union to get into Wonderland and see new designs, colors and styles. “But we cling to traditions of our fathers, Tradition, ah, that’s what made this country great. My grandpap plowed with a bull-tongue plow; so do I. My grandpap ate corn prone an@ sow belly; so do I.. My grandpap made his own shoes on a wooden last; so do I. Take away your new-fangled stuff such as lAbor-saving devices. If we use a machine to do in a minute what my grandpap did in a day, we are cheating ourselves of that much incentive. Punkin Center lights the way back to the days of our fathers, “True, the last ygars many of us have not been able ta, get the corn pone and sow belly, an@ we've forgotten how to weave on the hand loom, forgotten how to make shoes, but we do fairly well. I make my shoes as grandpap did, but they aren’t so good as grandpap made, though they answer the purpose. “Since. I come to think about it, grandpap ha@ wild land simply for the taking, and this we hayen’t got in Punkin Center, as the land here belongs to the banker over at the county seat, But, after all, life is what we make it, and we aré doing fairly -well. ! “Health is not good in Punkin Center lately. I mentioned our most exalted president and his temporary insanity. I say temporary, because it will undoubtedly improve with the depression. He buried bis wife not long since, and two of his daughters are pronounced below normal, while his seven sons have rickets and eight older mare ried daughters have a skin disease called pele lagra. “But by the grace of god and the seven wore ders of our Thrift Club, we continue in the good work of industry and perseverance.—P.A.0.” eee Trick in All Trades One of the things giving the capitalist class a headache these days is the slowing up, if not the complete stalling, of the process that Karl Marx dished out rather briefly in the letters “M-C-M.” r No, Algernon, that isn’t a radio station. It is the business end of capitalism, where the bosses figure on turning “Money” into “Commodities” and extracting (by the addition of the workers’ unpaid labor power during the making of “€’) a bigger sum of “Money” at the end of the process; As we said at the beginning, this transaction is hard sledding these days for the capitalists, And in effect the story we are about to tell, is a small sample of what the whole capitalist class is trying to put over. Only in this case the “capitalist” happened to be a preacher by the name of Rey, Nathan Worthy, who, according to an Internation#l News Service dispatch of Dec. 11, from Moultrie, Georgia, showed up at a church there and was “invited to preach.” The Rev. Worthy had evidently underwent some expense to get there and produce a ser= mon which he delivered, a sermon which in our . example will be represented by the “C” of Marz’s . “M-C-M.” Th first “M” representing roughly $7, apparently what “Money” he had invested’ in the production of the specified religious dope delivered. But right there the process “M-C-M” broke down. The dispatch tells of the breakdown, and what the Rev. Worthy did to stimulate the pro~ cess, in the following words: “He (the preacher) said he needed $7, and passed the collection plate after delivering a sermon. When the plate came back empty, the Rey. Worthy whipped out a big pistol from under the tails of his ‘claw-hammer’ coat and waved it at the congregation. “Look here, children,’ he said. ‘When I say I need seven dollars, I mean I need seven dol- lars. Not one of you brothers or sisters is leave ing this church’ until I get that seven dollars.’ “The collection plate went the rounds agen and returned with $11.05. The Rev. Nathan wots, pocketed his pistol and the money—and. be called right after the strike starts and the work of the Central Strike Committee organised. Number of striking miners must be involved in the daily work of the central strike committee, The Central Strike Committee must set up ofe ganizational committee, defense committee, ree Hef committee, publicity committee, women, youth and Negro committee. Negro, wonien and young workers should be adequately represented in the Central Strike Committee. Buro of the strike committee must be composed of the chairman and secretary and 2 members of each sub committee. The members of various come mittees must be used as field instructors to transmit decisions of the buro to the lower com- mittees. and check up on their work | (3) The strike territory must be divided in sections, Section strike committees must be established immediately after the striké starts. Special attention must be given to establish functioning section buros. Wherever possible section headquarters must be established, ~ (4) Special conferences on relief, defense and so 6n must be organized to give concrete in structions ‘to these workers. i 7 (5) Committees of miners must be sef sbi