The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1931, Page 4

~ Poblished by the Comprodaily Pubits! ng Co, tne, daily except Sunday, et 50 Has? i SUBSCRIPTION RATES: g Tt Ls ry * Page Four 18th St, New k City, N ne ALgonauin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORK.” Sy maf everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs 3 Address and mai! all checks Daily Worker, 50 Hast 18th Street, New York, N. Y. of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: one year, $8; siz months, $4.86, } — = <== = ar — By BURCK. ean Party Recruiting January 11 - March 18, 1932 h .» The Org Department received the competition in recruiting new members into the Communist Party.’ Here the first shot! NEW YORK CHALLENGES BOSTON AND PHILADELPHIA t official challenge in the revolutionary it is— Yo Bovien and Philadelphis Districts of the C.P ST PARTY OF .U.'S. DISTRICT NO. 2 0. A WILL YOU ACCEPT OUR CHALLENGE? part of January. The New York District some good results. and Boston Districts be held on January 9th at and the basis of the competition in this camp: with the Party Mass Recruiting Drive. ‘The Party recruiting drive will be in full swing thronghout the country during the first already st arted Its campaign and is showing In the spirit of Revolutionary Competition, we challenge the Philadelphia and Boston Districts during this membership drive on the basis of numbers, Negro workers, shop groups organized, shop papers, points of concentration, workers in basic industries and unemployed workers. We propose: That a meeting of the Or 2 p. m. in New York to discuss the method to develop the membership of our Party. The District Secretariat in New York expects a prompt reply from the other Districts in order that all the arrangements are made for the carrying out of the tasks in connection NEW YORK DISTRICT BUREAU, C. P. U. S. A. | ganizer and Org. Sec’y. of the Philadelphia | i Boston has lately led the Lawrence J Philadelphia District made headway amo Are you ready to accept the challe workers in struggle against wage cuts; ng the miners in the anthracite. Answer! nge? _ NEW YORK EXPLAINS HOW IT WILL RECRUIT NEW | PARTY M EMBERS * HOW AND WHERE TO RECRUIT PARTY MEMBERS. A second important method for the recruiting drive is the following That comrades of the various fractions of our , unions call open fraction meetings, and invite By L. DAVIS. ‘The Recruiting Campaign of the Party, which | ‘s starting officially on January 11 is different trom the past recruiting campaigns. At this | ‘ime we do not depend basically upon ma’ meetings and recruiting from street meeti Tt is based basically upon the fact of individual | r recruiting, on the basis of struggles carried on by the workers. This recruiting is to take place | within the shops, unions, unemployed branches, | mass organizations, etc. This does not mean that we must completely ignore the past form of | Tecruiting, that is utilize large mass meetings and demonstrations for taking in of new mem- | bers into the Party. But the basic stress must be put upon individual recruiting through our | In order to bring before the workers the prob- of the Party and pointing out to them the the leader of the struggles of the work- necessary to use new forms through reach the workers. ‘im Tn the district plan for recruiting, there is a deals with the calling of open unit the unit of the Party located in a territory should distribute a leaflet around that territory calling the workers in the | neighborhood to an open meeting of this unit, | where = leading Party comrade will speak to | workers on the reasons why they, as work- | ers, should join the ranks of the Communist | Party. This method will help us greatly in get- | Ue our Party, and will help us to bring before the workers of that particular territory, concrete examples in the way the Party leads the strug- gles of the workers. to these meetings the best fighting elements of the workers who are following the line of our Party in the T. U. U. L,, and there have a lead- ing comrade of the Party speak to these work- 5 on the necessity of their becoming members In this connection we must pay special at- tention to the unions of heavy industry, such as the Metal and Marine trades. The District Committee has sent out a letter to all our mass organizations asking them to pick some of their best conscious workers, speak to them about joining the ranks of our Party, and sending these workers in groups to the Lenin Memorial meeting to be held on January 21, 1932. This method will bring great en- thusiasm to the workers at the meeting, and will make them feel that our Party is really Snxious to bring into its ranks new fighting ele- | ments of the working class. In order to carry out the work of the re- cruiting drive successfully, it is also necessary to develop a system of check up, which must be guided by the District Org. Department, and in the sections, by the section Org. Departments, where we will be able to follow up the progress of the recruiting drive, exchange experiences in the drive. This to be brought to the membership in the form of a bulletin dealing with all these problems, drawing the necessary lessons trom it, and in the process of the recruiting campaign to correct the weaknesses and shortcomings in the recruiting. In this way, we will be able to bring in hun- dreds and thousands of new members into the ranks of our Party, who will help to bring our Party closely to rooting itself inside the fac- tories and become a real mass Communist Party. TRE PARTY’ RECRUITING CAM- cat PAIGN IN DISTRICT NO. 16. f By DAVE DORAN. Charlotte, W. Cc. % is no accident that the Communist Party | i # District 16, comprising the Carolinas and Vir- | announces today that it has set itsely a | of 200 new members to be obtained by | Yéth. The period between January end | during the third winter of hunger | ited States. The announcement by the recruiting campaign comes at time as the announcements by the bosses of huge layoffs and curtailment [ of the textile mills. It is clear that the will use the great amount of unemployed ile workers es a weapon to batter down the AWages of those left on the job, The ranks of the unemployed will swell. Hunger will roam freely in the shops among the workers as well as among tho jobless in the streets. . i AE ge g iF 1 Tf ‘The farmers and ‘share croppers have had ¥ ‘their crops torn from them. Even though they | starve right now, plans are being hurled in their } faces that are calculated to force them off their land by restricting the acreage next year. The ' big landowners are gobbling up their lands as well as. their crops. Death and hunger walk arm and arm through the cotton and tobacco ids and pounce, upon the poor. farm toilers. wave of terror tlow furiously raging against Negro workers is simed ageinst the entire working dass in order to paralyze their struggles. Py ; 30 to be we CHAOLOTTE, N. C., DISTRICT SAYS IT CAN AND WILL RECRUIT NEW MEMBERS INTO THE PARTY continued demands upon \the Charities arising trom the greater needs ofthe workers fully ex- poses the Charities as a boss agency. The Amer- ican Federation of Labor has discredited itself before the eyes of the workers by its opposition to Unemployment Insurance and its betrayals of the workers’ struggles. The eyes of the working class of the South are turning to the Commu- nist Party. Thus the drive for more members comes at a time when the workers are begin- ning to follow revolutionary leadership and are organizin; revolutionary organizations. The Communist Party needs strong working class fighters in the South. New working class blood must be drawn into our ranks and trained for leadership in the struggles of the workérs for better conditions against the bosses. The | Communist Party as the only organization really leading in the fight against wage cuts, unem- ployment, starvation, lynchings and wars must be rooted in every factory, in-every farm area, must become the -real leader of the workers in ey field constantly fighting for the most im- mediate demands of the workers, for full equal- ity for the Negro workers, for unemployment insurance for all workers, against bosses’ wars, against the rule of the bosses. Under the existing conditions, the quote set for District 16 of 200 new members can be realized easily, The quotas are as follows: Charlotte, 100 members, 40 of them to be white, 60, Negro, 30 to be women, Danville, Va., 75 members, 50 white, 25 Negro, Greenville, S. C., 25 members, 10 white, 15 Negro, 10 of whom to be women. Drive | | ee RE The Liberator Needs| Mass Support | By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL General Secretary, International Labor Defense | "PHOUSANDS of workers, Negro and white, ar- rested; scores of Negro workers lynched; the endless agonies of chain gangs, penal colonies, convict camps, especially in the South; exposure and resistance to the vicious race discrimination against the jim-crowed many millions of Ne- groes—all seek a greater and more challenging | voice of raging protest in our militant working ¢lass press. | ‘The printed word must be better mobilized for | @ mighty counter offensive against the savage persecution that labor, Negro and white, has suf- fered too long. An immediate task is the winning of tens of thousands of new readers for the Liberator, the spokesman for the League of Struggle for Negro Righis. Without @ mouthpiece to thunder its demands continually the word “struggle” in the L.S.N.R. becomes almost meaningless. This the boss men well know ‘in the South where our press carries on its work in practical illegality. This, the Hoo- ver administration at Woshington knows, and already in this period of growing war danger uses the war time laws to deprive our press of its sec- ond class mailing privileges. ‘The boss class sees to it that mailing privileges are reserved for the strong, strictly orthodox publications of capitalism. To fight for the work~ ing class is a basis for persecution. But also the mere fact that a publication of labor is weak, desperate for lack of funds, and sometimes un- able to publish every issue, the mere omission o” an issue becomes the cause of denial of second class mailing privileges. This denial of mailing rgihts, forces struggling publications to carry an additional expense burden which often forces them to suspend publication entirely. This is ex- actly what the Hoover-Morgan government in- tends. 2 The Liberator, the central organ of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, has been the vic~ tim in the past of these vicious attacks. Because it fights for labor, Negro and white, it will be compelled to face these attacks, ever sharper, in the future. In this desperate situation it relies upon the massed support of the working class. With the struggle to save the lives of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys, the fight for the Camp Hill share croppers, the campaign against the mine owners’ efforts to send Harlan, Ky., coal miners, Negro and white, to the electric chair and to long terms in prison, resistance to the persecu- tions of workers in Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans and other sections of the South, we have only begun the attack on. the boss class terror. It is the task of the Liberator not only to struggle sgainst individual’ persecutions (ynch- ings, arrests, etc.) after they have taken place, but t6 carry on continuously, ceaselessly, = right for the rights of the oppressed Negro masses, for social, political and economic equality, for the right of self determination, and to moobllize for this strugglé, the mssses of Negro and white workers and poor farmers. ‘This can only be achieved successfully with « mass circulation reaching everywhere. Especially in the South must the circle of readers of The Liberator grow and broaden. ‘The Labor Defender, the central organ of the International Labor Defense, greets the cam-~ peign to build The Liberator. ‘The effort to secure 10,000 new readers for ‘The'Liberator by January 15 should be easy of attainment. It will be quickly achieved if all those who really believe in and are a part of the strug- gle for the liberation of the working class trom wage slavery will Join hands in this Liberator campaign. This campaign takes on increased significance with the development of the war danger (Manchuria); new struggles among the colonial peoples (Cyprus); an ever army of jobless condemned to hunger and death. Build The Liberator to help lead in the battles against this misery and against the social order that created it. Get subserivers for The Lib- erator, and ask your trade unions, fraternal or- ganization, branches of the Ynternational Labor Defense, and other macs organizations to order & bundle (1 cent fer 10 or more) by writing to Sevag “ - “OH, MASSA, DON’T YOU THINK TWENTY YEARS WOULD BE BETTER”? War Debts and the Struggle for Colonies ; By HARRY GANNES “Almost all of the ‘conquerors’ came out of the war with a gigantic loot. America is strong. All owe te her at present, ail depend upon her. She is more and more hated. She plundered all and she plundered in a very specific manner. She got no colonies, Eng- jand came ouc of the war with gigantic colo- nies. France also . .. all this shows that Amer- ica cannot reconcile itself to the other coun- tries because there is the deepest friction be- tween them. .. . It is ridiculous to think that the stronger capitalism will not take away from the weakest capitalism the booty robbed by the latter.”—Lenin. PR ee (AR debts comprised most of the World War loot of American imperialism. But the growth of the economic crash, the spread of the financial crisis, the collapse of the Young Plan in Germany, the drop of the pound in England, makes this booty an uncertain prize. American capitalism now wants the more sub- stantial booty of colonial plunder on a vaster scale. The whole sick structure of American capitalism cries out for the “cure” of further colonial aggrandizement. In the Congressional discussions on war debts and reparations there was @ dominant factor that the American capi- talist press conveniently pushed into the back- ground. Two spokesmen for the most important strata of American capitalism called for a re- division of the world colonies—arid directed their covetous eyes toward Britain and France. Congressman McFadden made a violent at- tack against the Hoover moratorium, which he characterized 3s a Wall Street plot, naming the leading financial houses involved. But for some mysterious reason he forgot to mention the real force behind the moratorium, namely, J. P. Morgan. . Was there really a mvision between McFadden and Hoover? In other words, was there a basic difference of interest between that strata of the bourgeoisie for whom McFadden spoke, the small industrialists, the rich farmers, the merchants and Wall Street (that is, Morgan & Co.) whose mouthpiece is Hoover and Mellon? Not at all. It is no accident at all that McFadden’s bom- bastic speech was supported in a more digii- fied manner by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, Senator Reed is the spokesman for the billion- aire imperialist, Andrew Mellon. Why did Mc- Fadden and Reed (later supported by Senator Johnson of California, representative of the rich farmers and Western bankers) make so sharp an attack against the Hoover moratorium? They felt that the dominant clique of Wall Street, be~ cause the crisis endangered the huge short-term loans amounting to billions, because of the shaky Position of billions in foreign bonds, that in or- der to save their immediate interests were en dangering the war loot of American imperial~ ism, in which the whole strate of the bourgeoisie was interested. Congressman McFadden and Senator Reed opened up the propagandist drive for the con- scious preparation of war by American im- perialism for 2 redivision of the colonies. Both imperialism. Insisting that the European im- Perialists, despite the crisis, should continue payments on the war debts, because this is Wall Street's share of the colonial plunder, Senator Reed said: “T shall not point out particular countries, I am not trying to be offensive to any of thei. But it is silly for a European power owning far-flung colonies, holding lands sll around the circuit of the globe, with museums filled with art treasures worth millions and millions in money to say to us: “The exchange is against us; our currency is depreciated; we cannot pay America,” The Lion Roars Back, ‘This dart, directed against Great Britain, ex- pressing Wall Street’s colonial hunger, touched an extremely sore spot. ‘The British imperialists are fighting # life-and-death struggle to main- tain and strengthen their colonial empire. Wall ' In the United States very little was said about Senator Reed’s thrust against the British colo- nial holdings. But the British lion emitted a loud growl, warning American imperialism that colonial plunder is the spoils of war. The New York Times reported the Senate and House discussion had the following effect, par- ticularly Senator Reed's thrust: “Nevertheless, extracts from Senate and House speeches cabled to London are not having the best effect on Anglo-American relations, and their special indignation at the speech of Sen- | ator Reed of Pennsylyania, which drives the London Times to an acid editorial retort.” This editorial of tne London Times said: “More illuminating was the speech of Senator Reed, a leading Republican, a distinguished law- yer and an experienced man of affairs, who dis- missed ts ‘silly’ the idea that the payments of war debts could present any difficulty to a coun- try like Britain ‘owning far-flung colonies, hold- ing lands all around the circuit of the globe, with museums filled with art treasures worth millions and millions.’ “He is apparently under the delusien that the Possession of these things makes it easy to buy American dollars with which to meet payments in the United States, unless, indeed, the sugges- tion that we might ship the National Gallery and the British Museum to New York in satis- faction of the claims of the American treasury.” Lest the British imperialists made the mistake that Senator Reed, connoiseur of art though he may be, was particularly interested in the Brit- ish Museum or the National Gallery with their plundered art works, instead of the boundless sources of these good things which the British have held for so lopg—namely the rich colonies —Congressman McFadden drew up a more specific bill of particulars, In what was supposed to be a debate with Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, Congressman McFadden went so far as to name the colonies Wall Street desired, as a first step, from Britain and France. Thomas in the “debate” supported Hoover's stand (that is, the specific program of Morgan & Company on the moratorium ques- | tion. Thomas's only objection was that the program of Morgan & Co. was such a good thing there should be more of it. McFadden demanded colonies and bluntly said: “May I suggest that it would be a welcome gesture of intended friendship if England should offer to transfer to the United States in part payment of her debt to us the colonial possessions which wash our coasts from Flor- ida to Main... . * British Gulana in South America, The area involved is some 110,000 square miles and the population sbout 2,300,000. speaks of, situated adjacent to the Panama Canal, constitute Great Britain’s most powerful military position for the penetration of the Latin-American market. British imperialism is making & furious attempt to maintain the valu- able Latin-American markets and colonies and will not part with them except through war. McFadden, demagogue that he is, knows the war debts in the present crisis are being revised, that the whole Versailles system is on the verge of collapse. His talk about “trading” colonies for defunct war debts is & means of attempting to arouse popular favor for Wall Street’s colonial ambitions, McFadden’s argument is: “What could be fairer than this trade?” Should the stubborn British graspers refuse to relinquish these colonies “which wash our shores” then they must be forced to do so by the might of “arms. By such means are wars for colonial Ta every part of the warld American impesigy , wy iene Rather Conclusive A reader who assumes to take seriously the ad- vertisements in the capitalist press, put in by the N. Y. Telephone Company urging customers | to install an extra telephone in the kitchen so | that Madam can phone the cook and learn how | the turkey is getting along, wrote the phone company as follows: | “Much as we would like to please you, an extra telephone would be an absolute waste in our | case: | “1, Because we have no cook. . Because our living room is so close to the kitchen that if anything should happén to ow Potatoes, we would sniff it immediately. t “3. Because there really is no danger of any- thing burning in our kitchen, you see, the gas company having shut off the gas.” We might suggest « fourth answer: ; Because we cannot put in an extra telephone in view of the fact we have no telephone for it to play extra to. The Saturation Point “As an Irish reader of the Daily Worker X must register a kick regarding the suggestion of B. Neal of Long Island City, that all the vice Squad cops outside Sing Sing should be shipped Labor Party politicians have the New York braves licked as expert pickpockets, Oh, no, Red Sparks, Ireland can get along nicely without back to Ireland. He does not seem to know that there is, in Ireland, a secret service force know as the C.LD.’s who far surpass in black~ s guardism even the vice squad of New York. Fé “Please do not recommend sending any of the : Tammany Hallcrooks to Ireland, for it is -cer- tain the Cosgraves, DeValeras and bogus Irish. importing crooks and Ppoliticians—J. Burns.” Apparently the cops are Irish, too, in Ireland, | In fact the cop market has reached the satur- ation point so far as the workers are concerned, and this goes for the Irish workers in Ireland and in the U. S. as well. ‘There's plenty of Irish right here in New York, | and, we think, still a larger percentage in Bos- { ton. And one thing we've been puzzled about } is why there are not more—why not 4n equal | percentage—in the Communist Party. The Par- s ty ought to represent, in approximately equa} percentages, the working class population of the eb locality. oe We do not quite agree with the comrades, who in justified disgust at trying vainly to get stupid ' party bureaucrats interested in recruiting such desirable elements, conclude thet there’s a wide- spread conspiracy to keep them out in the in- terest of monopoly and liking to stick to com- fortable inactivity. But we are shocked at the way comrades show such a cold, suspicious eye at any worker who happens to be Irish. One such comrade, who has a touch of the “ould sod” in his speech and the big frame of a longshoreman, tells us of having his applica- tion for membership in some weeks now, but without result. And he suspects, from the way | the comrades he meets by chance eye him with { a chilly stare, that he is regarded with suspi- cion because he don’t ect salami with his eggs and work in a cloak shop. Snap out of it! There's a saturation pint for { cops, be they Irish or Negro. But Irish -work- ers are welcome, and more than welcome in the Communist Party. So let’s behave that way. . “ $7 oe Beans_Will Bring Prosperity “A plan to drive the depression away with beans, met a rather chilly reception at the Dis« trict Building today,” says the Washington, D.C, “Star” of recent date. ‘The longer the capitalist crisis lasts, the more nuts there are who come out with all manner of crazy “cures.” Someone ought to look up. | the papers of a year or two ago, and send us in the solemn pronouncements of “leading citizens” on how selling apples on street corners would restore prosperity. i ; | _ Where are the apple sellers of yester-year? | There is a bigger crop of apples than ever, and fa bigger crop of unemployed. Where, also, is | Heywood Broun’s famous “socialist” recipe for | unemployment: “Give a job till June?” - | | Where...? But the beans... It appears that a Californian by the name of Oscar O. Ayers (probably: = | relaitve of Sarsaparilla Ayers sent the, grand idea to Washington, where it wound Xp it te | District of Columbia administration offices. It was like this: | “Every merchant in every city in the country | Would display @ glass jar filled to capacity witht | beans. To his customers, tickets would be sold | for a*small consideration, Each ticket would en< title the customer to one guess at the number of » beans in the jar. The revenue derived, after de- ducting the cost of running the scheme and of giving prizes to the best guessers, was estimated 8 & z a g g 2 last | are fast plunging the imperialists toward war. These sharpening antagonisms 0 along with the intensification of the arations of all the imperialists against, Union. The war in Manchuria has y Proven this fact. Japanese tmperialism ita antagonisms with the other iameriatiee of China, again ein : Hoe i 5% q eh