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—— y ‘Party if we expect to keep the new Negro Party Ne © i e sections and higher bodies of the It is absolutely necessary to avoid loading the New and Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. York Ci x ‘ker, 50 Hast 13th Street, all ¢! » N.Y. ned by the Comprodafty Publishing Ce, Yue, dafly except Sunday, at 60 Bavd Cable “DAIWORK.” w York, N, ef Mevhat Sy mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two SUBSCRIPTION RATES: iam and Bronx. New York City. E mths, $1; excepting Boroughe Foreign: one year, $3; siz montha, $4.50. | Party Recruiting Drive January 11 - March 18, 1932 THE USE OF SHOCK TROOP WORK IN THE RECRUI ING DRIVE WO Months ago when of the unit concentratior factories, we came to the conc] former method of concentration about desired results, When » centrating upon particular ft possible for the comrades of with the workers from the they were concentrating, bec: made up of comrades working tions of the city, distances away from the shop that they were concentrating upon. As a resul of this discussion we decided to establish shock troops. These shock troops were to voluntary basis of comrades from in @ particular section consisting of no mor than from 7 to 10 comrades, and that to concentrate upon the particul: section. These comrades were to be con located close by to the concentration point Tades who can be around during ihe day the shop, who can visit contacts and distribute our literature to the workers of the shop. co rades who have had experience in trade union | work, comrades who are working thems ve an nteer for concentration at a fac- her industry. We do not intend to oops or shop grievance commitices dustries at the expense of the within the light industries. int because in the num- S have neglected their own ie union work because it happens light industry, and have volunteered roop work in a metal shop or the absolutely incorrect. in & number of sections it seems articular aslo rock t did_ no iad. units mions is very much unclarity as to whom In many cases have less experience, and less « troop shall consist of. who pic! his work. on a voluntary comrades time hi be con posed or ate for is true that basis, but we must hey were ntra point and can really be with the s of the particular place as often as. pos- order to be able to turn this concen- into concrete results in so far as tion of a shop nucleus or grievance in the shop is concerned. he section must take this mat- m as possible and see it that op that ix on ne the ves in very small shops involving let u: from 7 to roops become real shock troops, 10 workers and have no possibility of develop- work for concentration around the ing large scale work within their own shop. factories so that as a result of four months pla work we thay come forward to the Party with concrete gains within the various shops upon which we have been concentrating. ‘However, we do not propose by the organization of these shock troops to release comrades from | their own trade union and shop activity and for NEW YORK DISTRICT MAKES SUGGESTIONS HOW TO IMPROVE THE IN- NER LIFE OF THE UNITS—AS IMPORTANT MEASURE TO KEEP NEW MEMBERS. ‘The exceptionally high turnover in the Parby | makes it necessary for us to review this prob- lem deeply and find s way out of the situation. | Our Party units are in a fraction of the strug- | gles that, the Party is carrying on generally and when individual workers join our Party, they expect it to lead them and to take up within | the units the concrete problems confronting them in the struggles. However, when they are confronted with our units of today, they become disillusioned. | ‘The Party units must become the political | | | | ings and paralyzed the possibility of developing new proletarian , forces bers are made to feel that they play no part whatever in the unit except listen to speeches. Reports and discussions should be distributed to include ‘as many comrades as possible. New Party members should be encouraged to speak, to make a simple report on their atcivity, to express their views on Party problems. Elementary classes should be developed on a section scale for the new members so that we give them some concrete points in connection with the work of our Party. The work must be organized in such a manner that the comrades get at least one night a week for study. We must especially convince and encourage the new members fo take the various courses in the Workers School. The unit Agitprop Directors should pay close attention to the political de- velopment of the new comrades. Promising ian elements should be assigned for special training courses. The unit study circles should aim to develop especially the new and backward members. The Section Weekend | Training Schools should be utilized for the de- velopment of promising ptuletarian material for Party leadership. The District Org. Dept. and the Section Org. Departments must develop their machinery in such @ way that all red tape is avoided insofar as the new Party comrade being assigned to a unit is concerned. We have had experiences in the past where workers waited for months to be assigned to Party work. This is an impermis- sible situation and we must form our machinery in such a way that the comrades should be as- signed to a unit even before they receive their Party book. If new applicants do not respond to a call by letter, then comrades should be sent to visit | them at their homes, find out the reason why they are not coming, find out their grievances and in that way bring them in. leaders of the struggles of the workers. The Party.should reflect the struggles of the workers in the particular territory or field of activity of the unit. ‘This can be achieved only on the basis of mass activity, by the members of the Party in every unit familiarizing themselves with. the lives, problems, needs of the workers im. the shops and neighborhoods, by learning how to develop concrete demands and organ- ising struggles around these demands, linking them up with the main political aims and slo- gans of the Party. . ‘The unit buros are today not the leaders of the units. They should plan the meetings so ~ hat every Party member is drawn into activity of the unit. In order to keep new members, the meetings must be short and alive. New Party comrades come in with respect and expectation of efficiency in the Party work. The failure of the buros. to organize the meetings properly must be changed if we expect to have a real suc- cessful recruiting drive. The unit buros should develop a system of calling in individual mem- Hets to the buro for the purpose of checking up and consulting with them on problems con- The units should organize their work in such &. way that time is left for real political discus- sions of Pariy directives, campaigns, our ex- jes in the Party in one or another field of activity. We must pay personal attention to new Party The new Patty mem- | KENTUC gt fr —Ry GROPPER, ———$$__—__-. Bebe | Oh! How Wonderfully Wise The Chinese National Soviet Congress and the Advance of the Chinese Red Army (Chinese Workers’ Correspondence, Dee, Ist, Shanghai.) Tr First Chinese National Soviet Congress was heid on Nov. 7, 1931, the fourteenth anni- versaty of the successful Bolshevik Revolution. in Shai King, Kiangsi Province, the stronghold of the Chinese Soviets. Six hundred and ten delegates, representing millions of workers, peas- ants and toilers, gathered for the historical con- gress, ‘The delegates were sent from the Cen- tral Soviet District, the Soviets in Western Fu- kien, Hunan, Hupeh, Kiangsi, Hainan; from various corps in the Red Army, from the All- China Federation of Labor, All-China Seamen's Union, and many other workers’ and peasants’ organizations. ‘Chere were. also representatives of the Communist Party of Korea. On the morning of Nov: 7 an impressive mass opening ceremony was held. In the evening, a Jentern procession was attended by “mountains and seas of workers and peasants, with red lights shining high above in the sky.” The Con- gress was declared opened amidst the cheers of thousands of toiling masses “showing unprece- dented revolutionary enthusiasm and solemnity.” We can easily imagine the mass support of the Congress by millions of workers and peasants. ‘The second day of the Congress was devoted members if we expect to keep them in the Party. ‘Unit functionaries and old Party members must have regular consultation or discussions with the new members discussing with them their reactions to various phases of Party work, clar- | ifying problem for them and paying the closest attention to their complaints and problems. In | this connection, we must develop more our social Telations with each other, meeting as comrades outside of the Party meetings. The new mem-~ bers must. not. be made. to feel like strangers | inside the ranks of the Party. A more friendly and comradely attitude is necessary for over- coming trained relations between comrades. The is of special importance for the assimilation and maintaining of new Negro members in the Party. We must carry on @ very ruthless struggle all traces of white chauvinism in the | By MYRA PAGE Foreign Correspondent of the American Daily Worker) OR International Wagon, carrying worker- delegates from six different countries, has brought us to the Soviet Near East. We have come first to Baku, the City of Black Gold (Oil), which Hes along the western shore of the Cas- pian Sea, twenty-six hundred miles south of Moscow. Baku is the capital of Azerbaidjan. one of the three small Soviet Socialis Repub- composing the Transcaucasian Socialist Fed- Soviet Republic, which, in turn, is united with six other Federated Republics— Russia, White-Russia, Turkoman, Tadjik, Uzbek, Ukrainian—in the All-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In this way each nationality can “Rew Party comrades with too many burdens and | exercise its right of complete self-determination assigning them tasks beyond their capacity to and development of its culture. carry out. This is the best method of dis- } The people of Azerbaidjan, a brown-skinned eouraging and driving new members away from ° with shining black hair and eyes, and the the Party. We must begin with some very sim- | acquiline profiles of the Near East, are descend- ¢ concrete tasks, dlways consulting the com- | ants of the Persians. They speak a language task and explaining to the com- | somewhat similar to the Turks, Before the carefully what the task 1s about. He | establishment of Soviet power they were ex- convinced that he is in position and | tremely backward in every respect, with e primi- out this task. | tive economy, general illiteracy, the practices of of the word “discipline” in a manner | polygamy, Mohammendamism and the veiling of away new members must be done | Women. This nation of three million people was ‘The functionaries of the Party end | held gs & colony by the Russian Empire, just aPriy members should teach the new | as the United States holds the Philippines and discipline by example and not by | other colonies today. ‘The question of discipline should be Only one development took place under the in the light of self-discipline, of develop- | ozar, this was Baku's of! industry, which drew ‘conscious understanding of the political im- | the greedy eyes of Russiam and foreign capital- ef the tasks given. In many cases, | ists alike. The ruthless exploitation of re~ frresponsibility and looseness of the old | sources and labor by Russian, English and members helps to demoralize the new | swedish imperialists however gave rise to the members. The inner life of the units should | development of a native proletariat which as changed, political discussions should be de early as 1905 proved its revolutionary determina~ The method of relying entirely upon | tion to freé itself of all oppressors. from the District to the sections and Because of its great oil resources Baku and ‘should be discarded. The sections should | Azerbaidjan experienced much foreign interven- ; allo te develop initiative on the question | tion by the imperialists during the years follow- Weeding discussions on the various problems | ing the 1917 revolution. It was not until 1920 the Party. Experiences of members | that the last of the enemy was driven out and sections and units in the course of their | that the native working class, tozether with the ‘should be made subjects for discussion in | peasants and the help of their Russian broth units, In these cory acter were able to organize their Soviet power and ¥ weapon of self-criticism must be de- develop and cultural life as a geld Bisthnds of work in connection | free people p nuclei, shop work, etc. must be a In the last eleven years this small Soviet Re- discussion in the units. public has made such strides in bullding social- a4 examples where many old Party | ism that the results are & brilliant demonstrs- the Moor xt unit meet- | ton of tha creative powers o/ even the nxst Members. We must make them feel that our | Party in its daily struggles fights against jim- erowism, discrimination, etc, and we must de velop Negro comrades for the leadership of the as nomic BUILDING SOCIALISM IN THE NEAR EAST * backward of the tolling masses, their ability to quickly master the technique of modern produc- tion, and of general socialist development. ‘They are a living tribute to the correct Leninist policy of the Communist Party in dealing with the na- tional minorities, and its practical genius in con- crete application of this policy in relation to local conditions among the various peoples, Our delegation finds the contrast of new Baku which is everywhere wiping out the old even more striking than that which the indescribable blue of the Caspian Sea of the snow-topped Cau- casian Mountains which rise behind the city. Along the cramped, winding streets of the old parts of the town one still sees older women who go shrouded to the eyes in white, grey, or black cloth shawls. We pass the low stone and clay huts—mere hovels, in which Baku workers were formerly compelled to live, Only the worst of the shanties to which the Soutnern white landlords condemn the Negro tollers can com- pare with them. We look at the old mosques and churches, topped with the eastern crescent, now largely transformed by the workers into clubs, art and historical museums. Small asses, weighted with sacks, and occa- sionally camels lumber, across the cobbiestones— and out to the new asphalt road which runs for several miles from the city to the oil fields and new workers’ towns. A few small tradesmen harking their wares, one or two old beggers— these are the remnants of the old life. The new life has not been born without 2 tremendous cost in energy and self-sacrificing persistency. Difficulties, such as lack of sufficient modern wols, untrained labor and reactionary customs have had to be met at every step. At present the shortage of skilled labor is the most serious obstacle. For exampie, construction work in one of the workers’ towns was recently held up for several weeks while the hundred carpenters needed were located. ‘I'he metal plant ts busy reruiting au extra thousand men, Nevertheless Baku's seventy thowsand oil workers were able to fulfill their program under the Five-Year Plan in two and a half years, Its Production is now fificen million tons a year. The Baku fields, with their forest of derricks are the most highly electrified in the world. We speak with drillers and other workers who a few years ago knew nothing but some elements of primitive agriculture. Now they have been drawn into industry and trained technically and politically. This is how the Soret Union is iS ic question of cadres. | Chinese Soviet Socialist Republic. to discussion on the Land Law, Law for the Protection of Labor, Economic Policy, the Ques- tion of the National Minority, etc., which were put forth by the Communist Party. The Con- gress itself proved the correct leadership of the Communist Party in the Chinese Revolution. The Congress elected members for the Pro- visional Central Executive Committee of the Soviets and laid down « solid foundation for the The Con- gress also passed resolutions, under tremendous Money wages have risen 350% above pre- war, while real wages have risen even more. ‘We visit ‘one of the many model workers’ wwns which are being reared on the best sites around the city. This particular one is named for Stenka Razin, the rebel Cossack of the seventeenth century who led revolting peasants against the landlords and rich merchants. This Robin Hood hero of the southeastern nationali- ties fought for some time with success against the Russian Czar’s troops, but was finally de- teated, taken to Moscow and beheaded on the Czar’s execution block which still stands in what is now the Red Square. Many of the new towns are composed of three and four-story apartments, but the village of Stenka Razin is made up of neat rows of one ‘nd two-family houses, surrounded with trees and small flower gardens. Although it is De- cember the trees are green and the flowers in bloom. The houses are made of brick with an outer coating of white or pastel-tinted cement. The architecture shows an eastern influence that is most pleasing. By another year the last of the old houses will be torn down and all work- ers’ families housed in modern dwellings, Our leaders invite us to go inte any of the homes we like and speak with these people liv- ing there. Wherever we knock we are warmly welcomed, shown around, and our many ques- tions answered. The houses have generally two rooms, kitchen and bath, with running water, electricity, central heating.. One highly skilled worker with musical tastes has a piano, banjo and victrola; his wife evidently takes great pride in their new home with its modern twin beds and other furnishings. This family pays the equivalent of ten dollars a month rent, the fac- tory paying the rest. This is the maximum in rent. In another family we visit the man is un- skilled, having come from the village scarcely two years before, His family is small and he has only two small rooms with kitchenette and bath, which he gets entirely without charge, being a shock brigader. On the walls in neat patterns he has placed the pictures of Lenin, Krupskaya, Stalin, Clara Zetkin, also drawings of May. Day and November celebrations. He is taking tech- nical courses, he tells us, in order to better qual- ify himself and speed socialist construction. We visit one of the four large workers’ clubs, rightly called “Palaces of Culture,” which this city of five hundred thousand persons has built. In architecture, equipment and program of ac- tivities it compares favorably with the best that Moscow possesses, Our delegates hardly know how to express their enthusiasm; they will never be content until the workers in their countries also enjoy such advantages. We go also to the ‘Women’s Club, established to develop the women who were kept so ignorant and isolated under the old system, and whose men, still laboring under the old prejudices, tried to prevent their freely taking part in the new Soviet life. When we entered the classrooms where these women were studying many of them drew their shawls» quickly across their faces; then with shy smiles, realizing what they had done, released them again. One in a class of biology, another in politics, a third for those who wish to learn to read and write. This club, which was started a decade ago by ten Communist members whose lives were threatened by those who saw their “sacred” Mohammedan customs violated, now has grown to over three thousand. These are only some of the aspects of the new Baku, and of how the proletarian dictator- ship is enabling the peoples of the Near East to traverse centuries of progress In «a few years’ time, coming directly from primitive conditions not to capitalism, but to Socialism and its na~ Hone), Mbaration of al! peoples { enthusiasm and cheers, for the support of the | Chinese Communist Party and the Young Com- munist League, to appeal for support to the workers and toiling masses all over the world, and against Japanese, American and other im- Perialist partition of China and for the defense of the Chinese Revolution and the Soviet Union. In the face of the advance of the Chinese Revolution under the leadership of the Com- munist Party of China, the Kuomintang and imperialist reaction has tried repeatedly to Smash the revolution by means of lies, slanders, and direct armed attack. The Kuomintang, un- der the dictation and with the support of im- Perlalism, conducted three “Suppression Cam- paigns” aaginst the Soviets and their Red Army. ‘The soldiers ‘of the Kuomintang, without pay for months and influenced by the propaganda of the Red Army, refused to fight against their own toiling brothers and many of them mutinied. Chiang Kai-shek, who suffered crushing defeat at the hands of the Red Army, dissolved the “Headquarters of the Suppression Campaign.” However, being dictated to by imperialism, jJandlords and the bourgeoisie, the Kuomintang did not learn the lessons of its defeats. At the Fourth Plenum of the Kuomintang, a motion ‘was passed to “suppress the Communists and the bandits,” ahd plans worked out to establish * Suppression Commanders in Kinagsi, Hupeh and Honan Provinces, Chiang Kai-shek, who Re- came a “christian” not long ago, convened thirty leading christians to appeal to the imperialist powers for more direct aid in the suppression of the reds! Since the defeats of the Kuomintang and especially since the First National Congress of the Chinese Soviets, the Chinese Red Army has | made headway along all fronts. The Red Army occupied Klan on Nov. 17, one of the strategical points in Kiangsi Province. The Red Army met with little resistance from the Kuominteng Army and is now at Lo Huam, near Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi Province. Along the border of Hunan and Kiangsi the Red Army, uncer the commandership of Comrade Li Min Shui, has advanced along the direction of Len Hua and Cha Lin, defeating the Kuomintang Army of Chen Kwon Chung. The Sixteenth Corps of the Red Army, under the commandership of Comrade Kung Ho Chung, is advancing towards Pinkiang and Liu Yang. Along the eastern | front, the Fifteenth Corps of the Red Army is making headway towards Chehkiang Province. The Red Army in Fukein Province is also ex- tending its victories towards Kwantung and Chehking. The Red Army, under the command- ership of Comrade Ho Lung, has occupied im- portant towns along the Yangtse River around the Hankow area. The Red Army is also ex- tending its sway towards Szechuan and Anhwel The Agrarian and Anti-Imperialist Revolution has thus been deepened and extended. With the open capitulation of the Kuomin- tang to the imperialist aggression on Manchuria the masses are more and more convinced that the final solution of the Manchurian situation, ! the final independence of China from imperial- ist rule can be accomplished only by the Soviets and their Red Army under the leadership of the Communist Party of Chins. .Workers! Join the Party of. Your r Class! P. ©. Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. Name se eeesensceaceccesnecscecesesscesosconeses Address CH. 00 -Mail this to the Centra) Office, Communist Communist Party 0. 8. A P. ©. Sox 87 Station D. Mew York City. Xf you want to get an idea how little the capi- talists know about capitalism, we recommend you to the following, taken from the Business Bulletin printed by the Cleveland Trust Com- Pany, dated December 15: “The English historian, Buckle, says in his History cf Civilization, that in every great epoch there is at work beneath the surface some one force, more powerful than any other that shapes the events of the time and determines their ultt- mate issue. Probably the economic historians of the future will agree that the one economic force most directly responsible for this depression was the great decline in wholesale prices that has taken place in the past two years.” Uh huh! And probably the “economic historians of the future” will agree also that the tall wage } the dog. Peet There Ought To Be From J. A. of Cincinnati, we redeived tee cently a letter which shows how hard things the Daily has to buck. It says, in brief, that an article from Cincinnati in the issue of De-~ cember 7, was cock-eyed. That— “...the workers in the soup lines on Broade way street, were given a Thanksgiving dine ner of something that. was supposed to be | Soup and bread and lettuce,” “Well,” continues J. A., “I know that this is not true. They were given e full course dine ner and the worker who sent that in did not know what he was talking about. Now here is the point: IT have been working on certain contacts for Daily Worker subs, and when these particular workers saw this article (they, as well as I, knew the truth about the soup lines) they immediately denounced the paper and the movement. Until they saw this article they were convinced the paper contained the truth, Se you see, Jorge, how these articles hurt, Of course we class conscious workers understand that it is not the fault. of the paper or the Party that mistakes get into the paper, but it is difficult to explain to other workers, There ought to be some way to determine the truth of all re- Ports and articles.” Well, there ought to be, but we would have | to have a corps of investigators as big as the | Standing army and spend a million dollars @ month on telegrams—and still such exaggerae tions would creep in. No, we have to rely on the carefulness and honesty of the workers who write us—and we must not overlook the fact that they are truthtul and exact in the main; much more reliable than capitalist reporters. ‘The article in question was sent to the Daily with other material by the Ohio district for the “district page,” and who turned it in to the district is for the district comrade to ascertain. But the Daily certainly, with all its faults, is flatly opposed to such exaggerations. Workers who send us such things do us an injury—and we don’t thank them for it. Peeing Page Ham Fish Surely, says a worker, L, S., there must be an- other “red plot” to introduce “Russian ideas into this feir land. ‘What do you make of this, Watson? In answer to an inquiry sent out to textile plants by “Fibre and Fabric”, a textile magazine, on “How's Business?” the U. S. Cotton Duch Mill of Atlanta, Georgia, stated: “We are now completing the second installa- tion of new model large spinning frames in this mill, which are being operated by inmates of the penitentiary.” Cae ees Communist Percentayes Comrade L. H. writes in urging that ve coun- sel comrades to use their head sa well as thelr tongue when making statements in private con- versations with workers. As an example he cites a comrade who, in a talk with workers gathered by chance in a park, said: “Ninety-five per cent of the Communists are good.” Our correspondent interrupted to re- mind him: “One hundred per cent of the Com- munists are good.” “But,” says he, “the comrade became higay indignant and left us.” We think Comrade L. H. was correst in this. We recall that one of the counter-revolutionary movements in the Soviet Union was masked under the slogan: “For the Soviets; and with the good Communists; but against the bad Com- munists.” ‘The Communist Party is and must be respon- sible that its members are Communists, and if they are Communists, they are “good”. The “bad” ones are not Communists and are thrown out. Faith in the Party's ability to sift out the non- Communist elements, is itself a test of those who call themselves Communists, = Gone But Not Forgotten next time, Jorge, if it wouldn't seem too imme dest, please, maybe you could get them to put tt this way: “‘Fred Ellis, former staf’ member.’” Well, far be it from Red Sparks to turn down “Fred.” We all remem! him and love z Hu EF incarceration of human beings”, were the words ‘used by Chief of Police James L. Beaver of this city describing the quarters In the 40-year-ol¢ Atlanta police headquarters. —Frem o sews