The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1931, Page 6

18th St. New York City, N. Y. Telephone ALgonquir Cable “DAIWOI Page Six ‘Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 Hast 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. — =< oo = wublishea wy the Comprodaily Publishing Ce., Inc. daily eept Sunday, at 50 | | Party Recruiting Drive January 11 - March 78, 1932 DIRECTIVES O} THE RECRUITING DRIVE ISSUUED BY THE CENTRAL COM MITTEE, C. P. U. S. A. (Continued) TI. Main Political Slogans of the Campaign ‘The following main political and agricultural slogans must be issued for the campaign and be concretized in the Districts and Sections, on the basis of the economic demands of the workers and the situation in the shops and in- dustries. 1. Capitalism is = system of wage-slavery; the Communist Party fights for the overthrow of capitalism—join the Communist Party. 2. The U. S. is ruled by a financial oligarchy Which robs and oppresses the toiling masses; the Communist Party—the Party of the working class fights for a classless society, for the aboll- tion of the domination of the bosses’ class— join the Communist Party. 3. The United States government is the boss- es’ government—join the Communist Party, fight for a workers’ and farmers’ government, for the dictatorship of the proletariat. 4. National oppression, discrimination, segre- gation, Jim-Crowism, lynching—this 1s the lot of the Negro masses under capitalism; join the Communist Party and fight for .the complete political and social liberation of the Negroes, for the right of self-determination in the Black Belt. 5. American imperialists aim to attack the Soviet Union, the only workers’ and farmers’ government—join the Communist Party, defend the Soviet Union, the workers’ fatherland. 6. Rich landowners, industrialists and bank- ers rob the workers and poor farmers; join the Communist Pa: the Party of the working class which fights for the complete abolition of exploitation of man by man; jo‘n the Commu- nist Party ork for Communism—classless ciety. 7. Capitalism breeds wars; to abolish wars we must abolish capitalism; join the Communist Party. 8, American imperialism—bankers, landlords, industrialists and all other profit seekers, through their government, oppress and rob the people in Cuba, Philippines, Hawaia. and other colonies and participate in the division of China—join the Communist Party and fight for the freedom of the colonial peoples. 9. For Communism through a workers’ and farmers’ government; join the Communist Party. 10. Emancipation of the working class must be accomplished by the workers themselves; join the Communist Party—the only Party of the working class. 11, Defeat the starvation program of hte Hoo- ver-Wall Street government, the bosses and their socialist lackeys; join the Communist Party—the leader of the mass fight for Unemployment In- surance. 12. Workers defeat the bosses’ campaign of speed-up, wage cuts, lay-offs. Enter the Com- munist Party! Organize Communist Party nuc- lel in the shops, mills and mines. 13. Join the Communist Party—the stalwart leader against imperialist wars, and for the de- fense of the Soviet Union. 14, Smash the terror of the bosses and their government, by building a mass Communist Par- ty in the shops. 15. Strengthen the fight for the defense of workers rights to speak, assemble, organize and strike. Join the Communist Party. 16. Negro workers—into the Communist Party, which organizes and leads the struggles against lynching, for equal rights for the Negroes, and the right of Negroes to self-determination in the Black Belt. 17, Smash the system of persecution, terror, deportation of the foreign born and the slave plans of the Hoover hunger and war government. Join the Communist Party. 18. Fight all forms of discrimination against women; fight for equal rights. Women workers— Join the Party of your class—the ‘Communist. Party. 19. Militant agricultural workers and poor farmers, join the ranks of united struggle against the Hunger and War government, against the trusts and banks—Join the Commnuist Party. (Also appeal to share-croppers and tenant farmers). Problems Shoe Workers Are By 8. ZYEBEL. "HE Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union has passed a year of struggle, and we can draw valuable Jessons for our future work in building our revolutionary union. After the defeat suffered in the 1929-30 lock- out, the shoe workers of New York were ex- hausted and to some extent demoralized, If the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union that led the struggles of the workers had organized a re- treat when it realized that the workers would not be able to defeat the combined forces of the bosses, police, labor department, courts and the reactionary boot and shoe scab “union,” the shoe workers would have remained in the union, Saved from demoralization, gathering strength for another fight, organized and prepared better than ‘before. ‘The condition of the shoe workers worsened. Wage-cuts of 40 to 50 per cent, speed-up and lengthening of the hours were forced upon the workers. In addition to that, the economic crisis has thrown thousands of shoe workers into the streets. The Boot and Shoe “Union,” which came to New York in time of the struggle of the Inde- pendent to help break the strike by sending Workers to scab, helped the bosses to enslave the workers. These fakers had and still have the Lovestoneites to help them; these renegades re covering every betrayal with rvolutionary phrass. The terror and the wage-cuts of the bosses in- erease every day, and the shoe workers in New York must realize that something must be done to stop it. ‘The Shoe and Leather Workers’ fndustrial Union, that came in place of the Independent, have learned from the mistakes of the latter, determined to organize the shoe workers for struggle against the bosses and all the fakers in the ranks of the shoe and leather workers. It is true that not many workers were in the ranks of the S. L. W. I. U. when it organized, Salvation a. H. LEWIS To lowly dupes in blood and tears Balvation like the sun appears: Our day breaks, our might wakes, Mass-inspiration rears, Closing the toil-subjected eon; Five thousand years Go down in paean. ‘Through all of history's ups and downs No up like this: Ahead, a gleam of brother towns. Behind, the dark abyss! How food’s a thing to tantalize ‘The God-forsaken hunger-eyes, How droolers dog the smell: Today, abundance; hell— Tomorrow, abundance paradise. | with thoughts of food obsessing me (Utopia shining unabstract, A perfect bow! of stew, in fact— Yet but a vision to devour), ‘That part of us have taken power And left czar-dust behind? ‘Then reassurance trumpets through And I could shout, it’s true, it’s true! As Marx divined! Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Mighty example force, ‘Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, _ Blazing the epic course,— Dooming the Morgan-band: Defend her! Defend her! She's our motherland! . those were an active and militant element who had faith in the shoe workers. In April, 1931, the first strike involving about 100 workers in the Feifer Bros. Slipper Co, in New York against @ 10 per cent wage-cut took Place, The S. L. W. I. U. was called upon to lead this struggle. This strike was the first sign that the choe workers in New York were recovering from the defeat, and will start to struggle against the rotten conditions existing in the trade, Our Union realized that it must mobilize and Prepare our forces for struggle. During the summer months- followirig, the union devoted itself to building shop groups. and preparing the workers for struggle. Thanks to this policy, we succeeded through several strikes to force union agreements, whereby we raised the wages in some instances, forcing the with- drawal in others. The opportunist theory that in time of depression the workers have no chance to win did not work with us, ‘The popularity of our union as the only fignht- ing organization in the shoe and leather in- dustry grew, and-many shoe and slipper work- ers joined the union, helping to expand our ac- tivities. At the same time, the Boot and Shoe started to lose one shop after the other, because of their open betrayal of the workers in helping the bosses to force wage-cuts upon the workers, The workers refused to accept it, struggling against the bosses and the union bureaucrats. Never before did such favorable conditions present themselves for organization. We cannot be satisfied with these achieve- ments. The bulk of the 40,000 shoe and slipper workers in New York are not yet coming in mass- es to the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union. We must state that there has not yet been seen enough resistance on the part of the shoe workers to the growing need of the bosses for more profits. We must see to it that this passivity on the part of the workers should come to an end. What should be done? If the masses of the shoe workers are not ready to join the S. L. W. I. U,, their dissatisfaction with the conditions existing now must be helped to find expression in @ united action of the rank and file in the shops, The shoe workers, regardless of affilia- tions and opinions, must decide on action against the growing worsening of their conditions, A conference of shoe workers of New York, or- ganized and unorganized, employed and unem- ployed, must come together to discuss their prob- Jems and lay down plans for struggle against the bosses. The S. L. W. I. U. will support such a con- ference wholeheartedly and will give all pos- sible aid and assistance to organize this con- ference. If such a conference of rank and file, representing the workers organized in the Boot and Shoe, in the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union, as well as organized and un- employed, is to take place, it must come soon. The season is approaching and the bosses are preparing new surprises for the workers. Other methods are used by the bosses to put over dras- tic wage-cuts. The method of re-organization is introduced whereby the workers are laid off and then hired again on lower prices, The struggle against lay-offs must be devel- oped. The workers should refuse to leave the benches. Committees of action must be or- ganized in the shops on the basis of united ac- tion of the rank and file, regardless of opinions and affiliations, This action can and should be organized through a broad conference of shoe workers, Joint action of the workérs will cause the bosses to give in to the demands of the workers. Shoe workers, the time of struggle is approach- ing. Raise the question of a United Front Con- ference in your shops and organizations. Don’t delay it. Time is valuable. Prepare yourself for struggle sel ® » Daily... W Control Ong orker’ BURSCRIPTION RATES: Br mat! ywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs f Manha and Bronx. New York City, Foreign: one year, $8; siz months, $4.50. ynist Party U.S.A. - : ERIE AC = u ae AS 0 Sean —By GROPPER. | St ee a eee ee By P. P. 1 World-Telegram clown has been at it again. This time it was Tom Mooney and Mayor ‘Walker who supplied the circus material. It seems that the Daily Worker refuses to shed tears of gratitude over Jimmy's trip to California. The clown is indignant because the Daily Worker urged the working class to “expose the latest trickéry of such capitalist politicians as Walker and Walsh who are attempting to use Mooney’s imprisonment for their own. political ends.” Pagliacci, you see, is not interested in move- ments, in mass struggles, in social forces. Like the good, sweet, Harvard, bourgeois humanita- rian that he is, Pagliacci is interested essentially in. individuals, and mainly in one particular in- dividual. (That is why the letter “I” on his typewriter has to be repaired a dozen times each year.) Were two innocent Italians, Sacco and -Van- zettl, about to be burned to death on trumped up charges? Pagliacci rushes splendidly to their aid, grease-paint and somersault. temporarily for- gotten. Why, one might have properly asked him, the sudden excitement? Are Sacco and Van- zetti the only rebels against the horrors of capi- talism’ who ‘have been hounded to death by Special: Privilege? z Was it the first time in the land of the free that labor leaders have been kicked, beaten, de- nied elementary legal rights, railroaded to jail and slaughtdred for daring to question the tyranny of Big Business? Not that Pagliacci would have listened to you; he didn’t have time. ‘There was the deadline to beat, the lecture en- gagement that evening, the radio talk, the night- club appointment, the play that had to be re- viewed, the preface to “The Failure of Prohibi- tion,” by A. Bourgeois, Ph. D., that had to be written. Besides, this case was different; it offered an death sentence (through deportation to fascist lands) is the penalty for organizing into the Trade Union Unity League in Florida. This is another attempt of the administration to outlaw the Trade Union Unity League on the basis of membership in that revolutionary trade union center. Murdock, Berkman and Devine, T. U. U. L. organizers, are being deported for their activities in strikes. Secretary of Labor Doak has as his aim the illegalizing of the T. U. ‘U. L., through persecutions of this type—and by means of reigns of terror in strike situations, as in Tampa, Flordia, ‘This region, another of America’s famous Sun- shine States, has broken out in terrorism ex- ceeding that of its rival, California, where crim- inal syndicalist laws are the order of the day— | where the Imperial Valley organizers are still sweltering in the Noathsome holes of San Quen- tin and Folsom prisons, Doak’s deportation-to-death policy, which the International Labor Defense and the militant workers’ movement has been bitterly combatting, has flowered in the semi-tropical city of Tampa. Here, where 75 per’ cent’ of ‘the’ population ‘are Spanish-speaking colonial workers, six workers face deportation to Cuba and other fascist Latin- American lands. Two are already sweating un- der the hot Florida sun in chain-gangs—where 45 others are still in the antiquated dungeons of that state, The attack of the Southern ruling ‘class struck ‘Tampa after Nov. 7. At a meeting of commemo- ration of the, Fourteenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution the workers of this city were attacked by the police, the deputy sheriffs and the American Legion. Twenty-two workers were arrested at this time and a policeman shot, most. likely by his own gun-toting companions. Since then a wave of terror has descended upon ‘Tampa. A 72-hour political strike as a protest for the arrest of 17 workers on Nov, 7 was answered with a lockout. A sweeping injunction—against which those infamous ones of the North hardly com- Humbug unprecedented opportunity to star in the world- famous Massachusetts drama as the champion of humanity. The danger to his job? Well, he needed the money—there was that Thanatopsis poker session next eveningbut when did cash ever weigh with personal glory in the eyes of the buffoon? He was not interested in Sacco and Vanzetti as symbols of the working class seeking to rise above the level of grinding slavery and being crucified for its efforts. One’s heart can’t warm to a symbol and we must always bear in mind Pagliacci’s heart, which is bigger even than Big Business—yea, which is big enough to INCLUDE Big Business. In the same way, Tom Mooney as a persecuted human being causes a rush of sympathy to his well-known heart. The clown, filled as he is with the romanti- cized egomania of ‘his aristocratic-bourgeois up- bringing, believes irresistibly that the individual is the be-all and end-all of the social organism. Suffering must be dramatized in a spot-light be- fore he responds to it; but the drab, day by day, unromantic poverty and drudgery that are the rocks from which the supreme peaks of cruci- fixion arise—that is beyond his emotional grasp. “God speed you and do your best,” he writes to Jimmy Walker. “The most important thing is to get Mooney out.” Pngliacci, stirred to the depths by the misery ef one unfortunate caught in a train wreck af overlooking the hundreds of others,—overlooking the cause of the wreck: the twisted track of capitalism! Here is the crux of liberal ideology. Here you have its table of values. Contrast it with that of the Daily Worker. “The important thing is to get Mooney out and help smash the system that produces Statement by the International Labor Defense on the Tampa Arrests and Terror pare—was secured by the Tampa cigar manufac- turers on the grounds that the newly-formed ‘Tampa Tobacco Workers’ Industrial Union is an “organization advocating or encouraging belief in the destruction by force of organized govern- ment or in the destruction of private property as @ means to that end.” As a result, deportations proceedings, imprison- ment, the formatin oof a secret Vigilant’s Com- mittee (polite term for lynch squad), sluggings, and general terrorization was brought into play’ against these workers whose only crime consists of being members of a union that defends their class interests. The statement of principle of the union was ‘The Tobacco Workers Industrial Union of Tampa endeavors to organize all to- bacco workers, with the shop as the basic unit and democratic centralization as the guiding rule. Our union realizes that successful struggle can be conducted only when all workers in the in- dustry are united nationally and internationally with workers in ‘all other industries to combat capitalist exploitation throughout the world. “We are affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, miliatnt leader of the trade union move- ment in this country. The TUUL in turn is affiliated with the RILU. Through these affil- jiations we are part of the working class united front against the entire system of capitalist wage Slavery and oppression.” Because of this the bosses have brought for- ward ‘a barrage’ of ‘deportations, imprisonments, chain-gang sentences, white terror. The Inter- natiqnal Labor, Defense calls on the American working class to send protest telegrams to Mayor Chancey of Tampa, Governor Doyle E. Carleton, at Tallahassee, Fla. Secretary of Labor Doak and President Hoover in Washington. The ILD also calls upon workers to hold protest meetings particularly in neighborhoods where Spanish speaking workers live. Mobilize the foreign born as well as the native workers to protest this at- tack of the bosses and their government against the working class and the revloutionary trade unions, paerattic Mooney and the Clown--A Note on Socialist Mooney cases!” When Bernard Shaw delivered his famous- radio address on the superiority of the Soviet civilization, Pagliacci, journalist-like, lifted a few sentences out of their context thus making the speech sound like a bomb-throwing scare-head and wrote an indignant, humantarian sermon against violence and suppression of freedom as an integral part of the Soviet regime. But it is the violence and suppression of free~ dom by the courts and police in California that has kept Tom Mooney in jail for fifteen years! Violence and suppression of working class free- dom are, as he must know, essential to the maintenance of capitalism with its criminal syndicalism laws, its injunction proceedings, its assaulting and railroading of labor leaders. Well, the clown does not thnk about the mass- es; it is impossible for him to think realistically and consistently about the masses. No; he was ’ thinking of his own type of Bohemian parasite. He was shuddering subconsciously at what is happening to it in the Soviet Union where work- ers rule, Nothing expresses so well the tepid vicious- ness of the socialist party of America as the fact that it is men of this type who are its leaders and spokesmen. Norman Thomas’ phil- osophy blends nicely into Pagliacci’s! Sweet~ tempered, thrice-honorable Norman Thomas (s0 are they all, honorable men) adds more and more urine to his “socialism” as the years roll by. In the last election campaign, he was care- ful to explain to the masses that, after all, so- cialism simply means democracy, cooperation, good fellowship. Behold, the diminutive Mac- Donald! When the socialist looks at Tom Mooney, he sees a persecuted individual; when the Commu- nist looks at Tom Mooney, he sees the Class Struggle. When the socialist sees a single bread- line, he visualizes a give-a-job-till-June cam- paifn; the Communist under the same conditions sees a war for real relief and a war to the finish between the slaves on the bread lines in all'the nations in the world and their masters in all the nations in the world. When the socialist sees Jimmy Walker so deeply moved by the injustice done to Tom Mooney that he hurries to California (stopping on his way to enjoy a Notre Dame football game to relieve his agony), he chants “God speed you” like a good Christian. The Communist is not such a simpering idiot. He knows that if Jimmy Walker were not mak- ing political capital out of the Mooney case for capitalism he would not be Jimmy Walker; he would not be a Tammany-picked Mayor. What would happen under an Americah Soviet government to parasites, sophisticated, intellec- tual clowns, pampered, over-paid journalistic fungi and pampered lady novelists like Fannie Hurst (who recently received a fat check for a scurrilous attack against the Soviets in the reac- tionary Saturday Evening Post) would be. the same thing that is happening to them in Soviet Russia today: They would do some useful work— or starve! There would be nothing personal or vindictive in this’ attitude any more than there is any- thing personal or vindictive in the killing of mosquitoes ‘that breed malaria. ‘The Soviet bench is made of rough, hard wood; it is not fit for soft, ample behinds. Series of Articles On Fight to Defend Foreign-Born to Start in Daily on Monday In Monday’s Daily Worker, on this page, will be printed the first of 1 series of three articles, “The Fight Against the New Offensive on the Foreign-Born”, by F. Brown. In view of the re- cent utterances of Hoover and Doak calling for a federal system of finger-printing and regis- tering of all foreign born workers, and also in view of the huge increase in: the federal gov- ernment’s attempts to deport militant foreign born workers active in recent strikes, the impor- tance of this series of articles cannot be over- emphasized. These articles are part of the cam- pain worked out by the recent conference of the Council for the Protection of Foreign Born held .[o& December 20 in New York City. | By JORGE on) We Made a Mistake Sac} Recently we said, in comnmtent about capitalist medicine men looking for a cause of the crisis, that some “holy man” of the, Virgin Islands had said that the crisis was due to “sex laxity.” Well, | We were mistaken, having read the thing and | then mislaid it, we erred. It wasn’t a preacher said that, but Governor Paul M. Pearson of the Virgin Islands, who, bless you, is appointed by President Hoover. And he sald it in his annuad-report to Hoover. To bring prosperity back, “Governor Pearson recommended to Hoover that the sad state of affairs which “permit the people to have chil- dren without benefit of-clergy”- be changed by setting up an “inter-denominational welfare commission of clergymen.”~ We presume that this won't limit the production of children, but only give them the “benefit of clergy”—and, of course, Stop the crisis, However, from the way the crisis is hitting the United States, there must be a lot of “sexual laxity” running loose here, in spite of the over- Production of clergymen... Maybe, better ‘said, because of them, “er € Let’s Look at Brisbane A comrade sends in @ link-of Arthur Bris- bane’s sausage, clipped: from a Boston Hearst paper. Let's look at it: “Nobody quarrels about salt water and fresh air, there are plenty of both for everybody, The day is coming when nobody will quarrel about property or take any. special interest in it. There will be enough for everybody, enough food, good books, music and-leisure, the only things really important.” : Sounds kinda “liberal” eh? Some people might think: “Gosh, Brisbane is going-Bolshevik!” Not, so fast, brother! Let'stake’this-stuff apart and see what it’s made of:* So, nobody “quarrels” about’ salt water and fresh air, eh? Well, just try to get a little bit of beach along Long Island: Sound so you can dip your hide in that salt water—and find out how every damned inch of béach is OWNED by somebody, and what's moré, somebody just like Arthur Brisbane!—who “don’t permit com- mon people to get anywhere néar salt water. It’s their PROPERTY, atid either they're so rich that they shut everybody out and resewe miles of beach for themselves and their poodle dogs, or they want tobe rich, and set up bath- houses where they charge you Six Bits for a towel—and get away with it. °~ Oh, no! “Nobody quarrels about salt water!” And then about fresh.air...We.suppose Arthur Brisbane never heard that landlords who rent flats charge more for places where you havé windows; there are thousands of families right here in New York living in cellars where there is neither windows nor any. .ventilation—because they have no money to rent.places with fresh air.. Fresh air might, if.they could get it, turn the balance toward Ivealth for literally millions of the poor who are sick from being deprived of everything else—and are deprived of fresh air in addition. Sure! There are “plenty of both for every- body.” But under capitalism they are ménopo= lized by the few, and sold and measured out for dollars. And if you have no dollars you get no salt water nor fresh air, Then about that “day coming,” when, as Brisbane says, “There will be enough for every- body, enough food,” ete. What darn his pic- ture, there’s enough RIGHT NOW! Who doesn’t know that there is “overproduction” of food and nearly everything else? Don’t Brisbane know? Of course he does! Then why does he lie about. it in this chatter about “the day is coming when there will be enough”? ~ 2 The answer is: To make you keep quiet be- cause YOU haven't got enough NOW. HE has enough, you bet your boss! But he ladles out this bunk for you workers who haven't either enough—or any! C And he tries to cover up the pobbery by cheap philosophy that “sounds radieal.” And to side~ track you from joining:-the Communist Party and organizing to get what you heed in fightin trade unions and unemployed councils, he winds up by telling you that: “The, change *..-1 come” by some miracle of “intelligence” and “science” which he infers you needn’t do anything about. Hokum! What's needed is, a reyolution! ° oe The Law Is Impartial Maybe you read the other-day about a Negro workers who, penniless and shivering with cold from going barefooted in winter, “stole” a pair of shoes from a house—and faces execution for “breaking and entering with) felonious intent” or some such rubbish, ‘ The same day, we saw, that.a-World War vet who had “trespassed”—on what we don’t know, had been sentenced to the prison farm in Georgia, and while thére had, Had been flogged. It appears that the American Legion had made @ gesture at ititerceding on th ground that the law had been violated. But the State Prison Board replied that neither the’law of the state nor the rules of the prison had’ been violated. That is, under the law andthe rules of cap!- talism and its institutions, which the Legion upholds 100 per cent, whipping or flogging of prisoners is quite legal. This recalls to our mitid the fact that recently the N. Y. Bar Association whitewashed a Tam- many judge who had issued a. writ protecting a crook from questioning by the Seabury Com- mission, the writ being. issued at the request by phone of the Tammany boss, Curry. The Bar Association said that Curr was a vile pecs son for making the request, bul that the judge was quite O. K. in granting it.” Since then another ‘hice exemple wus that of a flock of shyster lawyers who had bribed a” Prosecuting attorney named Weston to “throw” the cases theypaid him to thandte that way. Most of these wero prostitution, cases.mixed up with the notorious vice squad graft ring. The pros- ecutor had confessed, and: in: detail, specifying the amounts paid and when and-who paid them, But the gink who is Known as a “referee,” @ sort of a judge in New York's: godawful legal system, says that the Jawyers.are innocent be- cause Weston, who admits taking bribes from them, by his admission labels himself as a crim= inal, and a criminal’s word is no good! And to think that some people are yet alive who believe that capitalist courts are “impartial”. Syne. Be 5 ai acta so IE es seme icaiombanimneen nS imcRI