The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1932, Page 4

y the Sp aa Yew York Ci < mail all ch . ly Publishing Coe, Ine., ¥. Teleotone ALgonquin 4-7956, Cable dally except Sunday, at 66 wast ks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 12th Street, New York, N.Y, “DAaIwolkKi* , evaéonterion: RATES: here: i One: year, $8; ‘ands Bronx, New | York |City. six’months, $8: two months, $t cepting Boroughs Foreign: one year, $8; siz months, $4.50. ecruiting Drive y 11 - March 18, 1932 &S RECRUITING IN NEW YORK et Org Department sment C. C. members ahd bringing +,have analyzed a list of 2 ap, this. district. Im this time sa, workers itito the Patty. Those ows: Merine—6. Needle—s, Building 224.-Food—i1. Shoe—2. House and Out. ‘Textiles. Transport—2. Sluding 2 miners. 6-19, 26-30—29. 4 over—35. Female—10. 31-35-18. 36=40 Nat: Negro &—8.. TUUL—26. —AFL & TUUL Employed—41. Unemployed—71. ¢ 2 weeks recruiting. What is im- re? There @te.also a few very in- things. One thing that is favorable gucusesttrict tsthat we got in in this 2 wee e Wworkers—if we take the past we w But the needle Sin &-period of 2 weeks which shows recruiting campaign that the Party is @n at the present time, it has become eapecially in this period of sharpened | to Gtaw into our ranks new proletar- eh have a inte the réhks of our Party on the desis is btrugéles ° around the concrete issues ig them in their particular factories time. _'This-becomes necessary, especially i ylew of thé fach that in the registration of the Perty, andthe functionaries meetings, that ave the last few. months, we see @ases our section and unit func- -are.net.workers.who have been hit by Crisis very. hard and do not fully under- whe tasks facing our Party at this present We have @ Situation where leading ‘the sections do not consider one a mtative if he is “just” a worker, sli laiiguage, but who speaks with an $i Spiteef the fact that this comrade very.long, who can uabbatie! who may te ‘debate 6n theories, but not workers $ process’of struggle have become de- can présent concretly tasks facing fe - Interid. to belittle the importance of ar the necessity of theory, but, theory iNew York Method) and he lives in his. territor lately assignéd to the unit ning his application the worker is recruited and lives in a pt section. than the signer of the ap “the ‘folléwing steps ‘shall be taken 16 Ist. meeting he shall be taken to the the comrade signing the application. IVES IN *DRIVE FOR NEW MEM- BERS FROM SHOPS.” folvin the period of January llth to 18th to gain 1,000 new members in the © objective set for the out of town Sec- doubling their membership by Lenin py is: an integral part of this drive. ‘Of this’ 1,000 new members,’ 175 shall corhe and metal; 75 from mining; 40 from 50 from R. R. and 20 from shoe n to the attention of the Party? daily activities. ‘Organization. City. RECRUITED BY “aft of the com- | TENDENCIES OF OPPORTUNISM WHICH MUST BE FOUGHT AGAINST | TRICT 8—CHICAGO SETS FOR ITSELF OBJECTIVES : _ IN THE PARTY RECRUITING DRIVE ON-PARTY WORKERS FROM SHOPS, MINES, MILLS Many of you are sympathetic to the Communist Party, many are participating in the . of out Party, many of you are active supporters of our Party press. In the course your activities you are observing weaknesses and shortcomings of our Party organizations. | y often keep you outside the Party. Why not write about them, why not | | The Communist Party is the Party of the working ‘Party, which leads the workers in struggle against . capitalism, The Communist our Party, even though you are not yet in the Party. and observation of the work of the Party will help the Party, and it will, What keeps you out of the Party: a in your shop, in your neighb ortioda; about the ‘setivities of: ‘the Party: trex shall be addressed to the | Org “Department * Central Conanitee, | tion, | trict with the notations that this comrade was still,do not understand the question of LSNR, etc., and the whole question of approach to the Negro workers. All this has been so sétiously neglected. that we have inthis 2 weéks’re- ited only 6 Negro workers. Then’ the fact that we have only 13 native born. It is quite true that some of the others are*American citi-~ zens, but still it shows that while we talk of reaching thé American workers we have not, yet overcome this ‘serious situation’” Then we have only 10 women, most of them housewives. This is a serious shortcoming in connection with the work among ‘women because ‘it shows ‘we! have not orientated toward the factories as far as women workers are concerned. You have received our plan which. insofar.as it distinguishes itself from past plans in) that we do not give the comrades definite figures, we ask them to discuss it and on the basis of their strength in the fraction and union, to decide on a figure. We held section functionary meetings iss this and held District functionary Last week the unit meeting took up the question of recruiting and on the basis of their discussion we are getting the quotas: for the recruiting drive. Also special fraction.meet- ings are taking place this week where we have a district representative take up with the frace. the problem of recruiting—recruiting through the fraction for the Party and building of the union. in the abstract does not mean # thing for us. We must have these theories concretized around the daily needs of the workers for only when theory becomes clear to the workers around their daily issue can we hope to carry on the real struggles of the workers, Such tendency on the part of functionaries must be fought against by the Party as sharply as possible for this’ ten- dency hinders the Party in bringing forward and developing new proletarian forces as the leaders of our Party and the struggles» which it carries on. Tt is clear that when & new worker’ comes into our Party as a result of struggles, he has read very little, and has not got a glib tongue. He is sometimes lost among some of these com- rades who talk much, and in reality say and do very little. In this Recruiting Campaign, we must bring in real proletarian elements, especially from the basic industries in this district, marine, metal, transport, eto., and bring these proletarian ele- ments not only into the ranks of the. Party, but draw them into activities and develop them as quickiy as possible, and in many cases, where necessary, change with the help of these new forces the functionaries in some of our sections and units. In that way we can really proletar- ianize the ranks of our Party and develop new forces in the leadership. If we do’ not ‘take’ this step and fight against these tendencies of op- portunism, we will not be able to enrich our Party will the experiences of these workers who are joining our ranks at the present time. SHOP NUCLEI b. At the close of the meeting the unit, or- ganizer shall briefly explain why he cannot be a ‘member of that particular section and then give him a letter to the section, where he is to.go. On arriving in the section, the letter shall be sufficient for assigning hi. to:a unit. c. The application card shall, go to the Dis- sent to a different section. The, membership book is then to go to the new section. é That from the shops listed’in the. Plan of Work for concentration where we* hayé shop nuclei, we shall recruit a minimum of: 60 new | members. 5. That we concentrate on 17 additional shops, listed in the Section Plaps of Work, to organize shop or mine nuclei with a =o membership of 55. 6. To achieve the objectives set, in’ the Party Plan for Building the’ ¥..0. L., of 300°¥. ©. L. members-and 16 new Y..C. L,.units. Write to us your. opinion’ on the: ina recent articie in ‘the $ pointed out some of the very inthe, work of thé, revolu- the Negro workers. While ‘Waion ‘Unity League in New york Gecisive' advances for the’ past écted in our work among So much so, that this be- of -our Wnajor tasks at the present rs th organteing the Negro prole- Fevolutionary unions and indus- @ réfléction of the wrong attitude of the Trade Union Unity t to concentrate on the most t ty chowever, Say that these ad>_ class. This is also coupled with strong white chauvinism (race prejudice) that expressés it- self in the failure not te seriously underteke, outside as well as inside our ranks, the struggle against “white supremacy.” The Liberator, if made a mass paper, can be- comé the bridge between the revolutionary untors 2nd broad masses of Nogro -workérs if those unions, especially those that operate in industries where we have big numbers of Ne- gro workers, such as Needle, Building, Metal, Laundry, Building Maintenance, take an active part in the campaign for 10,000 new readers. The campaign for The Liberator must become @ real beginning in orientating our unions to- wards this very burning task of drawing-in the | Negro workers into the ranks of the T.U.U.L. sections of the working | Coneretcly, each union should order regularly \ e's By BURCK. AGAINST THE LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS! By FRANK HENDERSON ‘Tenth Olympiad will:be held in Los An+ geles in the summer of 1932. It has been held every four years, except. during the World War when nations, instead fof coming together | onthe field of sport, met on the field of war for profit and markets. Hand grenades and bay- onets took the place of sport equipment. The whole ‘sham of friendly sport competition be- tween nations was-shattered as millions of» youth in the prime of life were forced: to die for the Hoty’ of capitalist mijlitarism, The sham con- tinues in the Tenth Olympiad. It will glorify physical prowess and professional athletic stars. What a mockery it will be to the starving un- employed and their. families! Only the “cream” of the world’s best athletes, nursed and paid by their respective countries, will be on display at the Olympics. Even the Amateur Athletic Union, the efficial sponsers of the Olympics, admits that most’ of their ath- letes come from “the schodls, colléges; special clubs, and YMCA’s.” What about the millions of other athletes outside of these’ special in- stitutions? What about the sand-lot players? The pick-up teams? The vacant-lot gang? The Negro. athletes?) And the working: youth. who are interested in sports? Has the: Amateur Ath- letic “Union '-or the, Olympic Committee made any provisions for them?. Are the Olympics for them? . Certaitily. not! Worker athletes in the industries, on | the farms, and among the. unemployed have no op- portunity to train or participate in the Olympics. | The youth fortunate eriough’ to: be employed are driven like slaves -in the work places. Even | restful sleep is impossible .after a! day’s work due to aching muscles strained in ceaseless labor. What chance have the under-fed and under- Uncover Starvation and Misery The capitalist press, the agents’ of the ruling class, ‘has been publishing less and less news about unemployment. “It‘hides the starvation of the mhemployed. workers’ families. © We ' must constantly expose the miserable treatment of families of the unemployed by the city governments and charity institutions. We Must uncover all cases of starvation, wi. dernourishment, sickness. We must pub- lish these cases in our press, in the _Daily Worker, in Labor Unity, tell them at al workers” imeetings. Un- employed Councils should publish bulletins t2 inform all workers of the starvation and misery of the By sar iA @ bundle of Liberace: tov be sold and dis- triuted among'the. Negro and white workers in the: shops and factories, Hach union and league shall. invite a. representative orethe League of Struggle for Negro Rights to. ites = membership meeting. with a view towards initiating @ discus- sion on the role of The Liberator and the rela- tions between the T.U.U.L. and the L.S.N.R. Each union and league, despite its own finan- cial difficulties, must work out a system for the maintenance of The Liberator in the form of individual donations and 2 regular monthly sim as a Sustaining Fund for The Liberator from the whion as a whole. The L.S.N.R. must like- wise develop a broad discussion in its own ranks on the role of the Trade Union Unity League and the hecessity for members of the Li of Struggle for Negro aaah to join the revolu- tionary unions. * Every member of our trade untons and feagues to the support of The Liberator! Subscribe to The Liberator ({1. a yéar; 60 cents for six mériths; 30 cents.for three months) and ask your shopmates to gubscribe! Get unemployed workers in your unions to, také a regular bundle of Liberators for sale before the shops and fac- toriés, and in every working-class nelghbcrhood in’ the city, BuildThe’ Liberator through our revolutionary unions in a struggle against the whole system’ of Jim-Crowism, lynching and dis- crimination, Help reach the goal of 10,000 new readersi 4 nourished ‘unemployed youth to compete with “milk fed” proféssionals. The public school gyms, municipal stadia, and other bosses’ “‘pay- as-you-enter” sport places are closed to. the working youth interested in sports. There will not be one amateur represented at the Olympics. Huge expense accounts are the .pay enveiopes for the athletes. The best paid have the most time to train, therefore; the biggest professionals will be at the Olympics,. The Soviet Union, one sixth of the world where the workers rule, has not. even been invited to send athletes to the Olympics. We must draw but one conclusion: THE OLYMPICS ARE NOT FOR THE WORKERS. ‘The Labor Sports, Union calls upon all ama- teur athletes, sport organizations, trade unions, and working class organizations to organize a huge counter-cainpaign against the. Olympics. This, campaign must not only be. against. the Olympics but against the whole bosse~* sport movement. The workers’ sport movement. must be boosted, stimulated, and built during this campaign. Trade unions, language and cultural clubs must take the question of sports as a vital necessity for the winning of the youth into tneir organizations. The Labor Sports Union calls upon all workers’ organizations for the utmost support in the building of a workers’ sport _move- ment’in the United States. The LSU calls for the support of the following eeeeene de- mands: % 1,, Build, United Front Committees everywhere of all workers’ organizations against the Olym- pies. pee | 2., An. International. Workers: Athletic Meet in the U. S. against the bosses’ Los Angeles Olympics. 3. Endorsement of the appeal-of Tom Mooney for the boycott of the: Olympics. Demand ° the immediate and. unconditional release of Mooney and all class war prisoners, 4. No discrimination or, segregation of Negro youth on the field of sport. Against Jim Crow YMC4’s, tournaments, teams, ete. Fuil equality for, the Negro race. 5.. Demand. the immediate opening: of,.ail YMOA’s, YWCA's, YHOA's. fot the use of the unemployed ‘workers, free of charge. a 6. Free ‘usg/of al! public schpol SYP s,, muni- cipal stadia: and sport fields by the workers a workers’ children. ‘ 7. Appropriations from ity, ‘shatg, yan ‘equy:- ty funds for the building of more playzrounids, parks, and. sport facilities for. the. workets” chi} dren in the working class! peigh T 8 Against the militarization”ef sports, $.. Democracy in the Amateur Athletic ‘Union and its affiliated bodies. Nominetions snd elec- tion of all officials, coaches; apd pistons, by the membership. I z 10. Endorsement of the ddleyeelont: of siybrtb- men invited from the Soviet Unign;, Sermany; France; England; Canada; Mexico; Cuba to'fhe International Workers Athletic “Mest in ‘the U. 8. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! P.O Box 387 Station D New York City Please send me more inforniation os che Gum tuntst Party Name SEER E Fhe e he eee een e eben ees eubisteuecen Address Stee eee ees mee seen emenseebeesornenees State . Cectipation + ABE iiss Mail this to the Central bs, Communtit Communist Party U & A P. O. Box 87 Station D. New: York Citys | ds’ sét. down againist thy Two Haaks Tell a Story of C Contrast “Eyes On Russia,” by Margaret Bourke- White; Simon and Schuster, Publishers, “OF, Yeah?” compiled by Edward Angly; Viking Press, Publishers, Oe i heat books really go. together, though the authors never intended it. But where Mar- garet Bourke-White, an artist in industrial pho- tography—and no less an artist in the written word, leaves off, with one more than a little en- chanted with'her story and pictures of the tempo of. socialist’ construction ‘in. the Soviet Union, Edward Angly takes‘ up, quite unconsciously, of course, the, contrast, and develops the de-btunk- ing exposure of American “prosperity” peddlers, the story, of the crisis and decline in Anicrican industry. “ Angly doesn’t write his book. He merely Jéts the capitalists, their politicians and apologists expose themselves. Going on the slogan: “Out of their 6wn mouths,” he compiles the book “Oh, Yeah?” from thé first paragraph, taken from Coolidge’s Det. 4, 1928, messagé to Congress, ‘to thé last line, which devilishly is taken, also from Coolidge, out ‘of the sayitigs of others who saw “prosperity” éverywhere and éternal—and thén has them contradict themselves. Just. this sample: Codlidgé on Ded, 4, 1998, said: “Th: country can tegard the present with satisfaction and anticipate the future with op- timism. . “Then, on Jan. +o, 1931, Coolidge said: country is not in good condition.” But there are riche pnes, from many a pdli- ticiin and, “économ: When “Puddier” Davis ws still Secretary @bor, on June-29,.1930,-he said: “The worst is ‘without 4 doubt.” Then, Bept. 12, 1930: “We are ait bottom and are on the. upswing.” wnat Lamont, Schwab, Roger Babson, Irving Fishér, and last, bub not least, Hoover all’ are shown up as the stupid prophets’ they- are, “out of their Own,;mouths.” The ever- -deepening crisis wrecks them all, “And the ruthie soos of their words B the story of capitalist decay and decline, of unemployment and’ the bewilderment of the l¢adets of capital- ist; thought who see their system crashing ‘about thelrsears. Turn,; then, tor. dontrast,. sto Boutke- - White's book, wh th jis writ by a "young lady who knows “hothing mi) ‘about Communism, put who etarts: aut «to sphotograptt the , Five- Yor r Plan, es the official guest of the Soviet Govern- msm. A lover of machinery and an urtist of the fit water {n-hér chosen field of industrial photography, shé is ¢aptivated by the scope and spirit of the Five, ibd ‘Plan and thé Soviet “The messes Who are building socidliéns. Her. photographs, and theré aré many in pe book, arevedth “warty of framing as a mestér- | Piece. Bub she’ writes even iqore charmingly, ‘t that is possible: > Tales of bireducracy ché en- countered are there, cf ‘course. And who would wish thern exeluded. Her viewpoint is soméwhiat naive, naturally; but ‘er-plein friendliness: and sympathy, forthe workers end théir heroic ex- ertién revéals'an understanding that is the more welcome because unexpected. ‘Heré aré her lines, written about the Scene on thé. Vefblid Staté Farm: “Great ‘skies piled high with ¢loud, tae into gwitling | shapés like whipped cream under the egg-béater. A silver radiance over the gtay stubble itt the datly thorning light: & delicious dohtrast With strips of trésh hatroved earth tuning neatly besidé tt. Sindutted agairist the sky, majesti¢' in the snorntig, was that new god ot, ara 4 Tracrdt.” : : roues thé machines and thé workers ngies ‘on théni, from one project to another. In, Dnilebrestroi che tells the story of’ gifanti¢ endéavor—and success. How the Riigsian ‘work- ert ee ae heavy. expense, to use strange huge. constructive oranes, she t American cranes, tt is | eae Ve per oe about thelr early éx- SAG EREEE Biles ere) 18 +a friendly, “eae By JORGE We Nominate “And now,” writes L. J. K, “the Ameritan newSpapérs once more print that well known story! about the bishop who was killed by the Bolsheviki.. We ‘have always wondered where the Bolsheviki get so many bishops to murder. Is it possible that they have e special seminary where would-be bishops are being. trained for the sole purpose of being murdered by the Bole sheviki?” Well, that might be possible. You know there aré many projects in the Five Year Plan. So why not a Five Year Plan for murdering bishops?’ And the raw material must be worked up: somehow, But if the Bolsheviks run out of catididates for the bishop industry, we'll nominate the rep- resentatives of what is called the “Christian and Missionaty Alliance” which seems to operate in Russia, and if none of them are obtainable, as & Second choice we suggest the Rev. Dr. George S. ‘Hunter, who is going about America peddling lies told him, so he says, by the said “alliance” chaps. According to the Pasadena, Calif., Star-News, of Dec.\14, Rev. Hunter, who is field secretary of the America-European Fellowship, spoke at the Pasadena Congregational Church, and, Dr. Hunter said he had been informed by representatives of the Christian atid Missionary Alliance in Russia that some 1,200 childrenyof broken homes, diseased because of social cou~ ditions, had been herded together by Soviet authorities on the promise of a dinner, and then, slain by machine gun-fire.” If that lie isn’t worthy of a bishop, and such a bishop worthy of execution, we miss our’guess. Spilling the Beans Now’and then somebody like the Doak: rises up and declares that ‘on the whole” employers. have “maintained wage scales” during the crisis; that only “some” have reduced wages. And then every capitalist.paper always tries to con< virice you that no wage cut has ever been made of more. than “10 per cent.” We're getting kind of sick about that “10 per cént” limit. And, fortunntely, a comrade sent us in a bulletin published by the U. 8S. Depart- ment of. Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economies, for November, 1931, concerning mainly the livestock, meat and wool industry, which comments on the general business con- ditions and goes on to say: ©The amount of money being paid out as wages by manufacturing concerns In the United States is now nearly 45 per cenit less than that of two yéars ago.” » Of course a big part of that 45 per cent is accounted for-by paying no wages wap all to the workers who have been thrown on the stréets unemployed. But none the less, that 45 cent represents wages which the working, as a whole did get, but have not been getting — hence it is a cut just that much in the of the workers as a class. Then, those workers who are employed, are asked, or rather forced, by their’ employers, 'to | contribute to charity to “aid the unemployed” that the employers threw on the street. Wouldn't! that make Captain Kid turn green with envy? , And’ wouldn't that make the employed workers see that they, too, have an.interést in jotting with the unemployed in the fight for unemploy- mént insurance at the cost entirely of the capi- talists? We think it would, so go out : ud tell then about it at their shops. And get th- whole gang out for February 4th! ee erie On Matters of Decoruz1 Some time ago we mentioned that some Pare ty comrades in a workers’ club had insisted. on “evicting” a group of Young Pioneers who had been given the use of the club rooms for their meetings: We dwelt cpecially on the. report that a Party member, who was an official in the clit; Said “he wouldrefase to carry’ out: a frac> tiondecision, if it made one, aginst it, Which was wrong on his part, of course. But there’s another angle to the whole ques- tion. And. that is, we are. told: “The. comirddes objected to the ‘activities’ of the Pioneer group in*bveaking chairs, defacing walls, tearing down wall. paper, etc.” And we must say that when Pioneers, act that way; well, they ean expect to ,be chased out. But the young comrades are not alone in this vandelism tenden We all know how com- rades come to mase moctings to chew the’ fat With, each other and fill the air with smoke gna noige to. the disgust of non-party Nationa yho atteid to bear the speakers. That is just on? form of hooligenisht Ber fvom the' Jewish Bureau we get another staight out example, wh ibe Bureau speaks of a6 follows: : “Our Middle Bronx Club had given pints: sion to the Unemployed Council to use the elyb rooms 2s its headquarters. We are informed thet the -greatest pastime of the unemployed com- rades. in the club rooms is throwing cups: vat chosen spots in the ceiling, or splashing. cottce all over the tablés, cutting up wall papers, etd, Thé result is that the club. rooms have-taken on thé appearence of a corner caloon and mem<« Sten, | bers ‘aré running away by the dozen. If this keeps up; the club will be out of existence in a few weeks. We cannot afford to bulld Up mess organizations and have them ruined by vandal- ism in this feshion.” Which is quite true as to the moral drawn It seems that there is need for some stregiht talk on proletraian discipline and comradely behavior which might be taken up with henefin in nearly every organization we know of. (pale tae’ Silly Saylege of the Great: PRR KG wes compel*4 to gd off the gold standard because other nations did not, play the game of the gold étendard in a sportcmarilike manneér.”"—H. B, Ltes-Smith, Professor of Economics at the Uni« yérsity of London, And Minister of be in the former “Labor” Government, * beautiful book. And, as we said at the begin- ning, it goés well with “Oh, Yeah?” because it ‘reveals the ‘virility and progress of Soviet indus- try, against the rotting economy, Msanity-end cynicism of capitalist America. —Harrison George,